The Alpe- Adria Working Community: a case of Interregional Cooperation

Abstract

This dissertation traces the history of the Alpe-Adria Working Community from its foundation to its dissolution. It consisted of a cluster of Eastern Alps regions and republics originally composed of: Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Veneto, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Styria, Slovenia, and Croatia. This Community was thus created with the aim of strengthening relations between these neighboring regional authorities through socio-economic, cultural, and political integration.

In particular, the work examines the activity and role of the Friuli Venezia Giulia region within the Community by dealing with and analyzing important topics such as transnational cooperation, the Euroregion, European integration, and above all the importance that the Community had for the process of the eastern enlargement of the European Union after Yugoslavia's dissolution.