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TERRITORIAL COOPERATION WITH NEIGHBOURHOOD:
OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES
FOR EUROPEAN SMART, SUSTAINABLE AND INCLUSIVE GROWTH
IN AN ENLARGED TERRITORIAL CONTEXT
ESPON INTERNAL SEMINAR
Paphos, Cyprus - 5 December 2012
Mathilde Konstantopoulou- MC Member Greece
Special Service for Strategy, Planning and Evaluation of Development Programmes
Hellenic Ministry for Development,Competitiveness, Infrastructure, Transport & Networks
TERRITORIAL COOPERATION 2007 -2013
OBJECTIVE 3: full –fledged objective of Cohesion Policy Along with Convergence and Regional
Competitiveness and Employment
Budget : 7.8 bn euro (ERDF)
9.4 bn euro (ENPI/CBC & IPA/CBC)
2007-2013:
75 cross-border Programmes (including external EU borders),
13 transnational Programmes,
1 interregional Programme (INTERREG IVC) and
3 networking Programmes (ESPON 2013, URBACT II, and INTERACT II)
TERRITORIAL COOPERATION 2014-2020
ETC Regulation COM (2011) 611 dated 6.10.2011 (Structural Funds Regulations)
Budget (initial proposal at the MFF in October 2011)
11.7 bn euro for Territorial Cooperation
Heading 4 MFF – “The EU as a global player” – GLOBAL EUROPE
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IPA = 12.5 bn (pre-accession countries)
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ENI = 16 bn
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DCI = 20.5 bn (geographic and thematic instrument)
(European neighbourhood)
General trend for external action: projecting EU values and interests
with a focus on growth, neighboring countries, crisis and emergency
management, security and regulating migration flows. Using development
as a tool to boost economic and foreign affairs objectives is crucial for the
programming period 2014-2020
EU 2020 STRATEGY
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Smart growth: developing an economy based on knowledge and innovation
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Sustainable growth: promoting a more resource efficient, greener and more competitive economy
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Inclusive growth: fostering a high-employment economy delivering social and territorial cohesion
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3% of Europe’s GDP invested in R&D
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The 20/20/20 climate/energy targets should be met (including an increase to 30% of emissions'’
reduction under the appropriate conditions)
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75% of population aged 20-64 should be employed
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20 million less people should be at risk of poverty
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Share of early school leavers less than 10%
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More than 40% of younger generation with a tertiary degree
KEY MESSAGES FOR COOPERATION IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
EU 2020 STRATEGY
The Europe 2020 strategy is not only relevant inside the EU, it can also offer
considerable potential to candidate countries and our neighbourhood and better help
anchor their own reform efforts. Expanding the area where EU rules are applied, will
create new opportunities for both the EU and its neighbours
TERRITORIAL AGENDA 2020
Territories with common potentials or challenges can collaborate in finding common
solutions and utilize their territorial potential by sharing experience. Territories with
complementary potentials, often neighbouring, can join forces and explore their
comparative advantages together creating additional development potential
TERRITORIAL COOPERATION 2014-2020
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Tool to strengthen EU’s territorial, economic and social cohesion
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Major contributor to European Integration across borders
GOALS OF TERRITORIAL COOPERATION 2014-2020
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Find solutions to transboundary challenges
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Reach economies of scale
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Find effective mechanisms to generate and share knowledge
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Improve governance
COOPERATION PROGRAMMES MORE FOCUSED
 80% of funding of Cooperation programmes concentrated to 4 thematic objectives
of the EU 2020 strategy
 Separate & specific Cooperation Regulation (COM (2011) 611)
TERRITORIAL COOPERATION WITH NEIGHBORHOOD (ENI –COM (2011) 839)
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Promote human rights, principles of equality, enhance good governance
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Achieve progressive integration into Union integral Market, enhance sector and
cross-sector cooperation
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Create conditions for well managed mobility of people and promote people-to-people
contacts
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Promote sustainable and inclusive development, fight for poverty reduction, act for
rural development, mitigate climate change and provide for disaster resilience
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Promote confidence building
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Enhance sub-regional, regional and Neigbourhood wide collaboration, as well as
Cross-border Cooperation
TERRITORIAL COOPERATION WITH CANDIDATE COUNTRIES (IPA II – COM (2011) 838)
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Support for political reforms (strengthening of democratic institutions, promotion
and protection of human rights, promotion of gender equality & non-discrimination,
reform public administration and promote good governance
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Support for economic, social and territorial development with a view to a smart,
sustainable and inclusive growth (proceeding to economic reforms, fostering
employment, promoting social and economic inclusion, developing the physical
capital)
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Strengthening the ability of beneficiary countries in order to fulfill their membership
obligations by supporting the progressive alignment with the adoption,
implementation and enforcement of rural development, cohesion, structural funds
and policies of the EU
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Fostering regional integration and territorial cooperation involving beneficiary
countries, Member States and third countries within the scope of the Regulation
establishing a European Neighborhood Instrument
OPPORTUNITIES FOR GROWTH WITHIN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD AREA
New development opportunities for the European Union and Neighbours
Added value and critical mass for regions and countries involved
Economies of scale to be achieved to boost competitiveness for all partners
Strategic projects of economic and political importance to be implemented (energy,
security, immigration, infrastructure)
Free Trade Agreements and other forms of economic cooperation between the EU
and neighbouring countries
Cooperation in the South, and in particular in the Mediterranean, requires the
construction and revival of ports, strengthening the links among territories
connected by sea
Barriers for flows will have to diminish and major infrastructure projects need to be
implemented in the Eastern neighbourhood, an important trade area for the EU
Metropolitan regions and world cities can become global hubs and enhance
cooperation and interconnections with the European Territory
Macro- regional strategies as a tool for further cooperation with the neighbouring
countries, creating synergies, while facing common territorial challenges
CHALLENGES FOR GROWTH WITHIN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD AREA
Adoption and implementation of Cooperation programmes with neighbours (which
for various reasons, though drafted and approved by the Commission, were never
implemented)
“New” territorial capital to be explored and discovered
Continuation of large infrastructure projects in order to increase accessibility,
improve connectivity, facilitate mobility, obtain energy efficiency and reduce costs
Strategic projects of economic and political importance in energy, infrastructure and
ICT to be initiated, continued, finalized and implemented in the neighbourhood
Neigbourhood as a source of human flows, students, workers and qualified labour
force, while tourist flows follow opposite directions
Major gaps in quality of life, political instability and low living conditions create
illegal migratory flows from the South and East to the “Western Developed World”
Energy adequacy and energy supply by ensuring stable market conditions in the
East
Natural gas in the Eastern Mediterranean gain strategic advantages and supply the
European energy market now that market conditions allow investments in the area
PROPOSALS AND IDEAS FOR SUCCESSFULL COOPERATION
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Focus on and learn the potential territory of cooperation
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Assess and select the area of cooperation
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Make use of the comparative advantages
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Select a list of priority issues
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Create a network of people interested, involved and include potential
beneficiaries
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Involve the private sector to obtain sufficient financing
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Reduce barriers, diminish administrative burden, avoid supplementary
costs
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!