The cultural policy at the Franco-Belgian border, how local initiatives and Europe are mutually interconnected?

Every cross border cooperation requires first to define an original perimeter where to operate and secondly to create new rules to decide together - since the legal local systems are based on national systems. Our specific interest is concerned with the cooperation based on public activities and linking local public authorities together. Our global question is then whether a specific local cross-border way of governing emerges due to European impulse and if local coordination is interconnected with European level. The paper is based on the implementation of a set of 21 cultural projects realiz... Mehr ...