Advice to MPs in Parliamentary Assembly Benelux Inter-parliamentary Assembly 2023
“Implementation of cooperation is difficult, because the fact that something is allowed to happen does not mean that it will happen in practice and the question is how to remove barriers.” The second plenary session of the Benelux Parliament took place on June 16 and 17 in the Maastricht County Hall. A delegation of parliamentarians […]
Cross-Border Impact Assessment 2023: Topics announced
The topics for the ITEM’s annual Cross-Border Impact Assessment 2023 have been selected and the research phase is now well underway. The final reports will be presented at the ITEM Annual Conference, November 17th 2023. ITEM’s main task is to help remove border barriers within the EU. That is why we publish a detailed annual report on […]
Workshop “Solving obstacles to cross-border teleworking”
On 14 June 2023 the B-Solutions workshop, organized by ITEM, GIP Aachen/Eurode and AEBR, in cooperation with the Benelux Union took place in the context of a B-Solutions project funded by DG REGIO. With a focus on the border regions between Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, the workshop explored solutions on the issue of teleworking, […]
NWO Social Sciences and Humanities (SGW) domain grant awarded to Math Noortmann
Cross-border inter-organisational cooperation in crime control The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded a grant under the SGW open competition to a research proposal written by Prof Dr Math Noortmann (Institute for Transnational and Euregional cross border cooperation and Mobility / ITEM) and Prof Dr J.B.M. Koning (UM School of Business and Economics). The project will […]
Daan Hovens runner-up in AVT/Anéla Dissertation Prize 2022
Daan has investigated how employees communicate with each other in a multilingual metal foundry in Limburg, nearby the Dutch-German border. He worked in the metal foundry for 3.5 months to observe and experience to what degree multilingualism hindered efficient communication, and the role of different kinds of power dynamics in this regard. Of the 12 […]
Little attention paid to cooperation with neighbouring countries in lead-up to elections in border provinces
The topic of cross-border cooperation plays only a modest role in the party manifestos for the upcoming provincial elections. Surprisingly, this is the case even in those provinces bordering a neighbouring country. This is one of the findings of a thematic analysis of 56 party manifestos from seven of the twelve Dutch provinces that share a border […]
Cross-border structures and integration essential for the future of border regions
“It is very important to move from networks to cross-border structures. In addition to vertical integration from the EU, we need to work together on horizontal integration as a structure that connects neighbouring countries to put border obstacles and opportunities on the agenda, analyse them and arrive at common future perspectives.” This is how Prof. […]
