Visiting professor Sara Svensson writes on new potentials for local cross-border cooperation in Europe

A book published by the European Academy of Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC) takes stock of developments and future potentials of the European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC). DPP Visiting Professor Sara Svensson contributes with a chapter on how this new legal instrument, introduced by the European Union in 2006, can function as a tool for enhanced interest representation of territories that span two or more borders. The chapter places EGTC within a multi-level governance framework and maps strategies for how EGTC can be a tool for efficient interest representation towards the national and the European level. It argues that the specific strength of an EGTC is the political weight behind it, since the politically elected composition of most EGTCs significantly distinguishes it from other interest organizations.