ECMI Report #5: Insular Regions and European Integration

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ECMI Report #5: Insular Regions and European Integration


ECMI Report #5 "Insular Regions and European Integration: Corsica and
the Aland Islands Compared"
 
The European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) in Flensburg, Germany,
is pleased to announce the publication of ECMI Report #5 "Insular
Regions and European Integration: Corsica and the Åland Islands
Compared" by John Loughlin (Professor of European Politics, Cardiff
University of Wales) and Farimah Daftary (ECMI Research Associate).
 
This report reflects the discussions during the International Seminar
"Insular Regions and European Integration: Corsica and the Aland
Islands Compared" organised by ECMI in cooperation with the Aland
Islands Peace Institute in Mariehamn (25 to 30 August 1998, Helsinki
and Mariehamn, Aland Island, Finland). The aim of this seminar was to
discuss common challenges faced by insular regions and to explore the
impact on insular regions of European integration and recent European
developments. Two very different approaches at conflict regulation by
two insular regions were compared: whereas the Collectivité
Territoriale de Corse represents an advanced degree of
decentralisation within the framework of the French nation-state, the
"Aland Model" is an example of a high degree of autonomy developed by
the Aland Islands and the Finnish government between 1920 and 1992 for
the Swedish-speaking Alanders. Presentations by Alanders and Corsicans
as well as keynote speeches were organised according to four themes:
(1) the model of regional economic development appropriate for an
island region; (2) the European dimension: island representation and
inter-regional cooperation; (3) language, culture and identity; and
(4) political culture and political institutions.
 
The report also contains an appendix with an overview of the main
political groups in Corsica, the results of the 1998 and 1999 regional
elections as well as an up-to-date genealogy of Corsican nationalist
movements. It also includes important excerpts from the 1991 Aland
Autonomy Act and an explanation on the status of Åland within the EU.
A selected bibliography for further reading is included at the end.
 
ECMI Report #5 may be downloaded or ordered directly from the ECMI
website at http://www.ecmi.de or ordered free of charge from: European
Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI), Schiffbruecke 12, D-24939
Flensburg, Germany; Tel: (49-461) 14 14 9-0; 
Fax: (49-461) 14 14 9-19; 
e-mail: [email protected].
 
Please note also that the complete collection of the papers presented
at the seminar, including the interventions by key political figures
and nationalist and autonomist leaders, international experts on
Autonomy and European affairs, have been published in French by
Editions Albiana in Ajaccio: Autonomies Insulaires - Vers une
politique de la différence pour la Corse? (Ajaccio: Albiana, 1999)
(ISBN 2-905124-47-4) and may be ordered directly from the publisher
at:  Les Editions Albiana, M. Guy Firroloni (Editeur), 4 rue Major
Lambroschini, BP 83, F-20176 Ajaccio Cedex 1, France,
Tel: (33-4) 95 50 03 00; 
Fax: (33-4) 95 50 03 01.

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European Centre for Minority Issues
William McKinney
Librarian
Schiffbruecke 12
D-24939 Flensburg, Germany
 
e-mail: [email protected]
http://www.ecmi.de
 
Tel: +49 461 1414970
Fax: +49 461 1414969
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