Le rôle de la coopération territoriale européenne dans les élargissements de l’UE. Le cas de l’adhésion de la Croatie
The Role of the European Territorial Cooperation during the Enlargements of the EU. The Case of Croatia’s Accession

Summary/Abstract: European territorial cooperation (cross-border, transnational and interregional) between European regions has improved in the last twenty years. Considered by European institutions like an useful tool to develop ultra-peripheral territories and solving borders problems, since 2007 it has became one of the objectives of European regional policy. The aim of this paper is to investigate the role of European territorial cooperation in the European enlargement process and how it could contribute to bringing acceding Countries closer to the European Union. In particular, this article examines the importance of European territorial cooperation in preparing the next European enlargement concerning Croatia, which on the 1st of July 2013 will become the new Member State of the EU. For several years Croatia has been implicated in numerous cross-borders, transnational and interregional structures and European programmes which have involved the Country in a strict contact with its neighbours - the others Western Balkans Countries and member States such as Italy, Slovenia, Greece - and above all with EU system.

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