The Minister for Federal and European Affairs as well as International Affairs of the state of NRW, Mr. Dr. Stephan Holthoff-Pförtner, the State Secretary in the Ministry of Labor, Mr. Edmund Heller, and the State Secretary in the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Mr. Christoph Dammermann, accepted an invitation on 21.2.2018 for an exchange on cross-border cooperation.
At the Eurode Business Center, they met with representatives from municipalities on both sides of the border, the Region Aachen Union, the Euregio Meuse-Rhine, the city region of Aachen, and politics, to discuss topics such as the cross-border labor market and economic area, practical examples from the Euregio Meuse-Rhine living space, the further development of the Stichting Euregio Meuse-Rhine, and the outline of the strategic-political context of cooperation between the state NRW and Benelux, as well as ideas and requirements for the further development of the region.
The uniqueness of the region was demonstrated to them through practical examples from the Euregio Meuse-Rhine living space, and they were able to experience on-site the daily work of the advisory offices of the Aachen-Eurode Border Info Point and the Cross-Border Employment Service firsthand.