{"title":"Las eurociudades rayanas: Tui / Valença, Verin / Chaves, Badajoz / Elvas; Ayamonte / Sto Antonio Vilareal","authors":"Julio López-Davalillo Larrea","doi":"10.5944/ETFVI.8-9.2016.16359","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A la consideracion de la frontera hispano-portuguesa –la raya- solo como un aislado paramo demografico, que en verdad lo ha sido, hay que contraponer todo un secular mundo de sutiles e intensas relaciones transfronterizas entre los municipios y nucleos de poblacion de los mas de 1200 km de frontera comun entre Espana y Portugal. Aunque aun hoy en dia el entorno rayano siga siendo una de las zonas menos desarrolladas de la Union Europea (UE), ha sido precisamente la UE, a traves de su politica de inversiones derivada de su Politica Regional, quien ha impulsado la creacion de entidades transfronterizas de diversa entidad –regionales y municipales-. Una de estas iniciativas la constituyen las denominadas eurociudades, integradas por dos o mas ciudades fronterizas de dos estados de la UE. Entre Espana y Portugal se han formado cuatro en la ultima decada. Las cuatro eurociudades rayanas nacieron inicialmente mediante acuerdos entre municipios proximos, vinculados historicamente aunque pertenecientes a los dos estados ibericos. En principio se basa en compartir recursos y sinergias para la promocion conjunta, pero con vocacion, a largo plazo segun proclaman sus responsables, de convertirse en una sola ciudad con un solo gobierno municipal. The Hispano-Portuguese border - referred to as «la Raya» in Spanish- has been usually considered as a demographical isolated paramo. Nevertheless, you must weigh against this reality that the 1200 km borderline is also as secular world of subtle and powerful cross-border relationships between cities. Nowadays, the Raya is one of less developed region of the European Community. For this reason, the EC, through European Regional Development Fund, is encouraging the foundation of several border-cross entities (regional and municipal). This cooperation may take the form of Eurocities formed by a couple or more European State borderline cities. In the past decade, four Eurocities have been created between Spain and Portugal, being born initially with agreements between close cities, with historical links but each one in a different country. At the beginning, the idea was making partnerships, synergies and sharing resources, and in the long-term, as decision makers claimed, turns into a whole city with only one City Government.","PeriodicalId":31416,"journal":{"name":"Espacio Tiempo y Forma Serie VI Geografia","volume":"1 1","pages":"131-167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Espacio Tiempo y Forma Serie VI Geografia","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5944/ETFVI.8-9.2016.16359","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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A la consideracion de la frontera hispano-portuguesa –la raya- solo como un aislado paramo demografico, que en verdad lo ha sido, hay que contraponer todo un secular mundo de sutiles e intensas relaciones transfronterizas entre los municipios y nucleos de poblacion de los mas de 1200 km de frontera comun entre Espana y Portugal. Aunque aun hoy en dia el entorno rayano siga siendo una de las zonas menos desarrolladas de la Union Europea (UE), ha sido precisamente la UE, a traves de su politica de inversiones derivada de su Politica Regional, quien ha impulsado la creacion de entidades transfronterizas de diversa entidad –regionales y municipales-. Una de estas iniciativas la constituyen las denominadas eurociudades, integradas por dos o mas ciudades fronterizas de dos estados de la UE. Entre Espana y Portugal se han formado cuatro en la ultima decada. Las cuatro eurociudades rayanas nacieron inicialmente mediante acuerdos entre municipios proximos, vinculados historicamente aunque pertenecientes a los dos estados ibericos. En principio se basa en compartir recursos y sinergias para la promocion conjunta, pero con vocacion, a largo plazo segun proclaman sus responsables, de convertirse en una sola ciudad con un solo gobierno municipal. The Hispano-Portuguese border - referred to as «la Raya» in Spanish- has been usually considered as a demographical isolated paramo. Nevertheless, you must weigh against this reality that the 1200 km borderline is also as secular world of subtle and powerful cross-border relationships between cities. Nowadays, the Raya is one of less developed region of the European Community. For this reason, the EC, through European Regional Development Fund, is encouraging the foundation of several border-cross entities (regional and municipal). This cooperation may take the form of Eurocities formed by a couple or more European State borderline cities. In the past decade, four Eurocities have been created between Spain and Portugal, being born initially with agreements between close cities, with historical links but each one in a different country. At the beginning, the idea was making partnerships, synergies and sharing resources, and in the long-term, as decision makers claimed, turns into a whole city with only one City Government.