Report on October 2002 Brussels meeting of the EU Transregionalism Convenor Group

In October 2002, the convenor group on European Transregionalism met with a group from ULB in Brussels for joint conference. The discussion were very fruitful and led to a spirited discussion on the differences between transregionalism and interregionalism, the relatively weights of different driving factors underlying the move toward different types of transregional trading agreements, and the reasons why the EU appears to be pursuing a different strategy than the U.S. Aggarwal remains in touch with Mario Teló and plans to continue the collaboration, possibly funded through an EU grant.

Following the meeting with the ULB participants, the Berkeley convenor group met together to discuss various conceptual, theoretical, and empirical issues for several hours. The organizers, Vinod Aggarwal and Edward Fogarty took extensive notes based on the discussion. In subsequent meetings, Aggarwal and Fogarty met to revise the introduction to the volume and to provide more specific guidelines to the participants in view of the changes in the theoretical approach.

The revised papers are now being sent in. The volume has been accepted for publication by Palgrave and will appear both in hardback and paperback as per the contract.