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Euregio Meuse-Rhine

Last modified: 2025-01-04 by olivier touzeau
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Flags of Meuse-Rhine Euroregion
left, current flag - image by Olivier Touzeau, 29 December 2024;
right, former flag image by Mark Sensen, 27 September 1998

• Overview
• The Flag

See also:

• European Union
• European organizations and movements

Overview

Euregio Meuse-Rhine is a Euroregion created in 1976, with judicial status achieved in 1991.The Euregio Meuse-Rhine fosters and coordinates cross-border cooperation between the five partner regions. On 23 November 2017, the executive board of the stichting approved a structural reform, allowing it to become a European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC) as from 1 April 2019.

It comprises 11,000 km² and has around 3.9 million inhabitants in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. The seat of the region, in Maastricht from 1976 to 2006, has been in Eupen since 1 January 2007.

The Euregio Meuse-Rhine comprises:

• The western part of the governmental Region of Cologne in Germany including the city of Aachen, the District of Aachen, the District of Düren, the District of Euskirchen and the District of Heinsberg, collectively referred to as the Region of Aachen.
• The German-speaking Community of Belgium.
• The Belgian Liège Province.
• The Belgian Limburg Province.
• The southern part of the Dutch Province of Limburg, with the northern point of the Euregio Meuse-Rhine being the city of Roermond. The Euregio Meuse-Rhine includes the provincial capital city of Maastricht as well as the co-operative region Parkstad Limburg surrounding the city of Heerlen.

Flag of the Meuse-Rhine Euregio

The first emblem of the Meuse-Rhine Euregio symbolizes with the three twisted elements the cooperation between the three countries. The elements are presented rotating, symbolizing motion and dynamics. Everything comes together in the center, standing for the Euregional unity. The emblem was adopted in 1976, just after the cooperation was established.
This emblem can be seen on posters, table flags and also in flags of various size. Those flags, however, were not adopted officially.

Mark Sensen, 27 September 1998

A new logo was adopted with the transformation of the Euregion into a European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation in 2019. [source: official website].
The flag is white with the logo: photo (2023), photo (2022).

Olivier Touzeau, 29 December 2024