Strategia macroregională pentru regiunea Carpaților
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Opinion number:
CDR-3425-2019
Status:
Adoptat
Objective
The Carpathians are a particularly important geopolitical region where strategic interests – political and economic – intersect.
This was even more the case after the 2004 EU enlargement, since the region now formed the eastern border of the whole Union.
Creating a specific strategy for this region would consolidate the strengths of the countries located in it and would complement existing initiatives such as the Carpathian Convention, the Carpathian Euroregion and the Interreg programmes.
The experiences of local and regional authorities, NGOs and academia, as well as consultations with people living in the Carpathian region, confirm the need for cooperation beyond administrative borders.
The opinion has the main objective to consolidate the arguments for adopting a macro-regional strategy for the Carpathian region, especially when being presented to the key decision-maker in this matter, namely the Council of the EU.
This was even more the case after the 2004 EU enlargement, since the region now formed the eastern border of the whole Union.
Creating a specific strategy for this region would consolidate the strengths of the countries located in it and would complement existing initiatives such as the Carpathian Convention, the Carpathian Euroregion and the Interreg programmes.
The experiences of local and regional authorities, NGOs and academia, as well as consultations with people living in the Carpathian region, confirm the need for cooperation beyond administrative borders.
The opinion has the main objective to consolidate the arguments for adopting a macro-regional strategy for the Carpathian region, especially when being presented to the key decision-maker in this matter, namely the Council of the EU.
Impact
European Parliament Research Service Study on the Macro Regional Strategy for the Carpathian: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document.html?reference=EPRS_BRI%282019%29642257 (12 December 2019) - referene to the CoR opinion.
The rapporteur is actively promoting the possible new MRS in a bottom-up process e.g. at a recent regional summit in Romania (Brasov, March 2020) where a joint declaration of Polish and Romanian regional representatives to establish the Carpathian Macro-region was signed.
The rapporteur also partcipated in the MRS week 2021 (organised by DG REGIO) and underlined the importance of establishing a Carpathian MRS.
In May 2020 Polish MEP Thomasz Poręba issued a request to the European Commission asking about further steps to follow-up on the opinion of the CoR.
The rapporteur is actively promoting the possible new MRS in a bottom-up process e.g. at a recent regional summit in Romania (Brasov, March 2020) where a joint declaration of Polish and Romanian regional representatives to establish the Carpathian Macro-region was signed.
The rapporteur also partcipated in the MRS week 2021 (organised by DG REGIO) and underlined the importance of establishing a Carpathian MRS.
In May 2020 Polish MEP Thomasz Poręba issued a request to the European Commission asking about further steps to follow-up on the opinion of the CoR.
Essential points
THE EUROPEAN COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS
- underlines that macro-regional Strategies improve the complementarity of various political strategies and programmes that are designated and implemented at different levels of governance. This pooling of jointly defined potential and coordination of actions is a significant added value at the European level;
- highlights the unique resources of the Carpathians, such as the natural wealth, unique multicultural heritage, human resources and common identity of mountain communities, all of which provide a great opportunity to work together towards more dynamic, sustainable and balanced socio-economic development in the area;
- considers that placing the Carpathian issue at the centre of a strategic document would highlight the problems of this area and make it possible to exploit the currently dormant and unique potential of the whole macro-region by focusing actions on the most important horizontal problems and challenges;
- reiterates and confirms the approval expressed many times of the initiative to develop a macro-regional strategy for the Carpathian region and sees it as a well-developed initiative undertaken at all levels of government;
- calls on the European Commission to support the initiative to create a macro-regional strategy for the Carpathian region as a further macro-regional strategy and the second one to address a European region with mountainous characteristics;
- considers that the macro-regional strategy instrument enables more effective use to be made of available financial resources as part of the European Territorial Cooperation (ETC) objective, by creating a viable system for co-financing and implementing actions supporting the regions of Carpathian countries.