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The Rhine-Waal Euroregion is a Dutch-German public body with 50 member
organisations, including municipalities, regional governments, and
chambers of commerce from the border region. The Rhine-Waal Euroregion’s most important goal is to improve and
intensify cross-border collaboration, both economically and socially. The
Rhine-Waal Euroregion brings partners together to launch joint
initiatives and benefit from the synergies.
In 1963 took place the first joint conference of the municipalities of
Kleve, Emmerich, Arnhem, and Nijmegen. The theme was cross-border
perspectives on the construction of ‘Rijksweg 15’ (Highway 15, the
current A3/A12). More conferences followed.
In 1971, border municipalities and industrial boards established the
Rhine-Waal Region Work Group. The work group was further
institutionalised throughout the seventies.
In 1978, the Rhine-Waal Region Council began work, establishing the
reinforcement of economic structures, the intensification of social
and cultural contacts, and the promotion of tourism in the border
region as main objectives.
In 1993, the Rhine-Waal Region became the Rhine-Waal Euroregion. Based
on the Anholt Treaty (23 May 1991), the Euroregion became the first
public cross-border body in Europe.
Since then, the Rhine-Waal Euroregion has developed itself from a
single organisation for cross-border collaboration mainly between
municipalities near the border, to a public body with about 55
members. Where the area of operation spanned 1600 km2 and counted a
population of 750,000 in the seventies, today it covers 8663 km2, with
a population of approximately 4.2 million.
[source: official website]
Olivier Touzeau, 29 December 2024
The flag is white with the logo in the center (the font on the flag differs from the font of the original logo), and with thin vertical stripes in the german colours at the hoist, and in the dutch colours in the fly: photo, photo (2014), photo (2023).
Olivier Touzeau, 29 December 2024