Topics

Opportunities
  • The highest density of capital regions in Europe
  • A shift in global trade flows (e.g. due to an increased capacity in the Suez Canal)
  • New potential for regional value creation at the key junctions of each axis
  • In the north: the greatest dynamics of innovation in all of Europe
  • In the south: the highest rates of growth in all of Europe
  • The biggest automotive cluster in the world
  • Heavy reindustrialisation in Central and Eastern Europe
Risks
  • Bottlenecks in the traffic infrastructure may potentially hinder growth in a decisive way
Aims

To establish the new economic region as one of the most competitive regions in the world, for example by:

  • Developing key junctions along the new trade routes
  • Supporting the dynamics of development
  • Making use of growth and innovation synergies
  • Strengthening the ability to compete
Main Focus 
  • Infrastructure and logistics
  • Innovation networks
  • Research and development
  • A pan-regional network of economic clusters
  • Employment market
  • Energy and the environment
Next steps:
  • Ensuring the economic potential for growth by expanding the transport infrastructure
  • Extending the trans-european transport axes TEN 1 and 22 from Berlin and Rostock to Copenhagen
  • Setting up a task group to establish the new European economic region
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