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ITEM Reflection: Coalition agreements in border regions from a cross-border perspective
Following the Reflection on party programmes in the run-up to the Provincial Council elections and the ITEM Commentary after the election results, we have now
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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