Crossborder Co-operation as a Tool for Trans-national Integration and Conflict Resolution: the Upper Adriatic Euroregional Experiences

If we portray borders as places for exchange and co-operation instead of barriers, it is straightforward to picture them as resources for re-unification and conflicts' resolution. The development of institutionalised forms of cross-border co-operation, originating from a will of populations and institutions of different states to face common problems, lead to the concept of Euroregion. The enlarged EU has been encouraging the creation of such forms of decentralisation of power, in the economic and cultural fields in particular. In the Upper Adriatic area, this experience of cross-border co-operation gave origin to the EureGo province.