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"Macro-regional strategies provide new platforms for territorial cooperation supported by the EU’s cohesion policy. Although there is no standard definition for macro-regions at the moment, they include territories from several countries or administrative regions which have one or more characteristics in common. Macro-regional strategies were launched three years ago with the strategy for the Baltic Sea macro-region, which set as its objective to target cooperation between the regions in the states around the Baltic Sea in the following areas: environment, prosperity, accessibility and security. This was followed by the strategy for the Danube macro-region, which covers the regions in the Danube basin, with a population of more than 100 million inhabitants and extending over a fifth of the EU’s area.
The Commission was initially reluctant to support these initiatives on the grounds that it would put a strain on the administrative structure, increase costs and be ineffective. However, I think that macro-regions provide European added value and can help implement trans-European energy and transport projects. I supported this report because territorial cooperation between macro-regions can bring benefits to the initiatives from the European Groupings of Territorial Cooperation (EGTCs), thereby ensuring the involvement of local and regional authorities, in addition to representatives of civil society, in making decisions aimed at utilising their joint potential efficiently."@en1
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