Anastasia Nekrasova, Intelligent Mindsets
Laboratories for a new Europe: Experimental governance in EU Macro-Regional strategies
In this increasingly complex world, things seem to disintegrate sooner than one can give credit to their existence. Against this, it becomes increasingly obvious that ‘old’ constructions, the European Union included, struggle to keep together. Countries turn back to nationalism, cooperation systems stagnate, and individuals increasingly turn their backs to problems outside their backyard. Are we nearing the dusk of the EU as we know it? However, it is exactly now that new collaboration structures emerge in Europe – the four EU MacroRegions co-create their own development Strategies. Armed with the integral perspective, let us explore these complex self-governing, self-transforming, multi-level ‘mini-EU’ governance experiments that are gaining momentum in Europe – both from the point of view of their value-added to ‘the European project’ and from the perspective of the capacity they need to develop for manifesting this value. More info on the Strategies: https://pjp-eu.coe.int/en/web/cultural-routes-and-regional-development/…