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Cross-border
economic
development
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Labour market
In the territory of the Euregio Meuse-Rhine, there are about 33,000
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cross-border workers. The largest flows are between Belgian Limburg
and Dutch Limburg. There are also high flows between the German-
Speaking Community of Belgium and Germany (this is because many
Germans live in the German-Speaking Community and work in Germany,
but also because many German-speaking Belgians work on the other
side of the border).
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Source: Grenzinfopunkt.
Players in cross-border economic
governance
The Euregio Meuse-Rhine, one of the oldest cross-border cooperation
initiatives in Europe (set up in 1976), formulated its EMR2020 Strategy
between 2012 and 2013, one of the main strategic focuses of which
is economic development. The TTR-ELAt (Top Technology Region –
Eindhoven-Leuven-Aachen triangle), an informal body dedicated to the
support of cross-border economic relations has, since the late 2000s,
partially overlapped with this structure of cross-border cooperation. The
specificity of the TTR-ELAt region is its focus on the content rather than
the governance of cooperation. As such, cross-border relations in this
region vary according to the issues upon which they focus.
There is very active cooperation between the Belgian, German and Dutch
chambers of commerce, despite differences in their nature (public in
Germany and the Netherlands and private in Belgium), their budgets
(companies are only obliged to belong to the chamber in Germany)
and their objectives.
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