The joint governance of the city of Lille and its cross-border catchment area has been ensured by the establishment of an EGTC. Created in 2008, the Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai Eurometropolis is the first organization of its kind in Europe, covering 2.2 million ...

Thanks to European integration, the natural catchment area of the border town of Szczecin seems to be shifting, which has led to the establishment of relations with towns on the German side and the start of joint planning. The agglomeration ...

With the construction of the Öresund Bridge, Copenhagen's catchment area on the Swedish side has become increasingly extensive, leading to more intense relations between the two sides of the strait. Today, the Danish capital's cross-border urban region has a population ...

The Basel agglomeration, located in the tri-border area and home to nearly one million people, covers 250 municipalities in the Swiss cantons of Basel-Stadt, Basel-Landschaft, Solothurn and Aargau in Switzerland, the districts of Lörrach, Bad Säckingen and Wehr in Germany, ...

The Eurodistrict Strasbourg-Ortenau was established in 2003 with the aim of coordinating the development of Strasbourg and its cross-border catchment area. The organization's founding charter was signed in 2005, and five years later (in 2010), the joint work was continued ...

One of the oldest cross-border governance organizations on the French-Swiss border is the French-Geneva Regional Committee (Comité Régional Franco-Genevois – CRFG), which has been working since 1973 to oversee and promote the development of the Geneva cross-border agglomeration ...

The Novohrad-Nógrád Geopark was established in 2008, after more than a decade of professional preparatory work. The initiative, which aims at the preservation of the common geological heritage and the promotion of nature-based tourism, was launched by the Bükk National ...

The Bratislava area shows typical metropolitan sprawl, but with a cross-border character. According to recent censuses, the cross-border metropolitan catchment area of Bratislava has a total of more than 13,000 Slovak citizens (7,540 in Austria and 5,465 in Hungary), which ...