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Adriatic Ionian Euroregion

Flag of Adriatic Ionian Euroregion - image by Eugene Ipavec, 06 June 2006

Overview
The Flag

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External link:

Adriatic Euroregion website

Overview

The conference for the launching of the Adriatic Euroregion was held in Venice (Italy) on 6 February 2006. Earlier events having promoted the creation of the Euroregion are the Meeting on the Inter-regional Co-operation in the Adriatic Basin, held in Pula (Croatia) on 28 June 2004 and the Fifth Forum of Cities and Regions of South-East Europe, held in Budva (Montenegro) on 11-12 October 2004. The protocol on the establishment of the Adriatic Euroregion was signed in Termoli (Italy) on 9 November 2004.

Valentin Poposki & Ivan Sache, 12 June 2006

The Adriatic Ionian Euroregion (AIE) is an international association established on the 30th of June 2006 in Pula (Croatia) for the promotion of trans-national and inter-regional cooperation between regions and local authorities of the Adriatic and Ionian basin.
The association changed its statutory name Adriatic Ionian Euroregion in January 2013.
The AIE represents a model for cross-border and interregional co-operation aimed to promote the coordinated and integrated development between regions of the area. Since 2006, the AIE has been targeting its efforts towards ensuring the interests of its members and towards the common development of the whole area. Furthermore the association supports the members, especially those in the European accession process, to create joint initiatives and to prepare the regional stakeholders to be qualified in the implementation of the cohesion policy and to deal with the European financial instruments.
Source: Adriatic Ionian Euroregion website

The association counts 33 members (Regional and Local authorities from Italy, Croatia, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Albania). All members are units of territorial self-governments and most of them are NUTS2 (the first level below State, in conformity with the European Community nomenclature NUTS, and with the administrative organization of each country). The total extension of the involved territories is about 200.000 square kilometers with an estimated population of around 20 Millions of inhabitants. The components of the Adriatic Ionian Euroregion are:

In Italy, the Regions of Puglia, Molise, Abruzzo, Marche, Emilia-Romagna, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Calabria
In Croatia, the Counties of Istria, Primorsko-Goranska, Lika-Senj, Zadar, Sibenik-Knin, Split-Dalmatia and Dubrovnik-Neretva
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Cantons of Herzegovina-Neretva , Una-Sana, Canton 10, West Herzegovina
In Montenegro the municipalities of Budva, Cetinje, Herceg Novi, Kotor, Tivat, Ulcinj
In Greece the regions of Epirus and Ionian islands
In Albania the counties of Durrës, Fier, Lezhë, Shkodër, Tirana, Vlorë

There were former members in Slovenia: the municipalities of Koper, Izola and Piran.

Olivier Touzeau, 29 December 2024

The Flag

The flag of the Adriatic Euroregion, as shown on the Region website, is horizontally divided light blue-dark blue with six outlined white fish, three in the upper stripe and three in the lower stripes, the whole frame in a thin white rectangle.

Valentin Poposki & Ivan Sache, 12 June 2006