Alps-Adriatic Alliance

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Flag of the Alps-Adriatic Alliance - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 29 December 2024

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Overview

Twenty years ago, more precisely on the 20 November 1978, which up until that time had been an informal bond of friendship between border regions was officially transformed in Venice to a community that intended to go back to the tradition and a history that had taken their course together.
Placing their signatures on the agreement the representatives of the Republics not only formally sanctioned the birth of the Alps Adriatic Working Community, but also made an important step towards a new future for Europe.
This land, for which all the Länder, the regions, the republics and the counties of the Working Community had participated altogher, intends to be a contribution - however modest - to a better reciprocal understanding between the men who live here, in the heart of Europe.
Once again, one wishes to demonstrate that the differences in language and in political or social structure don't necessarily have to form a contrast or build a barrier, but can instead be elements that integrate.
The reason for the formation of this land is always the same - to take another step forward in understanding, in friendship and in peace.

Ivan Sache, 23 July 2005

In 2012, at the plenary assembly in Zagreb, the members express their wish to form a new network structure. By then, the “Alps-Adriatic Working Community” has supported over 900 joint projects and published approximately 200 joint reports. The plenary assembly in Zagreb marks the beginning of the transformation process towards the “Alps-Adriatic-Alliance”. After Croatia joins the EU on 1st July 2013, the “Alps-Adriatic-Alliance” is officially founded by the political representatives at the formative Alps-Adriatic-Council meeting in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee [source: current official website].

The current members [source: current official website] are:

• Austrian Länder
  • Burgenland
  • Carinthia
  • Steiermark
• Croatian Counties
  • Istria
  • Koprivnica-Križevci
  • Krapina-Zagorje
  • Međimurje
  • Primorje-Gorski Kotar
  • Varaždin
• Hungarian Counties
  • Vas
• Republic of Slovenia

In the past, more austrian Länder (Salzburg, Upper Austria), German Länder (Bavaria), more hungarian counties (Baranya, Györ-Sopron, Somogy, Zala), Italian Regions (Emilia-Romagna, Friuli-Venezia-Giulia, Lombardy, Trentino-Alto-Adige, Veneto), Swiss Cantons (Ticino) were involved in the working community.

Olivier Touzeau, 29 December 2024

Flag of the Alps-Adriatic Alliance

The current flag of the Alps-Adriatic Alliance is white with the current logo, rotated 90° left: photo (2017), photo (2023).

Former flag of the Alps-Adriatic Working Group - Image by Željko Heimer, 23 July 2005

Former version of the logo (date unknown) in four languages.

Olivier Touzeau, 29 December 2024