They're concerned with the economic, social, and political concerns of their constituents, not with the cross-border issues—unless they happen to be in an area where cross-border issues are important to them.

As far as cross border coordination, we are members of PNWER, Pacific Northwest Economic Region; CREW, which is Cascadia Region Earthquake Workgroup; and WREMAC, the Western Region Emergency Management Advisory Committee.

EUROPA - EU law and publications - EUR-Lex - EUR-Lex - 32014D0366 - EN - 2014/366/EU: Commission Implementing Decision of 16 June 2014 setting up the list of cooperation programmes and indicating the global amount of total support from the European Regional Development Fund for each programme under the European territorial cooperation goal for the period 2014 to 2020 (notified under document number C(2014) 3776) // COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION - (2014/366/EU) // List of cross-border cooperation programmes with indication of the global amount of the total European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) support for each cross-border cooperat ...[+++]ion programme // List of transnational cooperation programmes with indication of the global amount of the total European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) support for each transnational cooperation programme // List of interregional cooperation programmes with indication of the global amount of the total ERDF support for each interregional cooperation programme // Contribution from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) to cross-border programmes under the IPA II for certain Member States

Support under both this Regulation and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) should be provided for the cross-border cooperation programmes between, on the one hand, Member States and, on the other hand, partner countries and/or the Russian Federation (‘other cross-border cooperation participating countries’) along the external borders of the Union, in order to promote integrated and sustainable regional development and cooperation between neighbouring border areas and harmonious territorial integration across the Union and with neighbouring countries.

At its plenary session of 23 April the Economic and Social Committee of the European Communities (ESC) adopted an Opinion on SMEs in frontier regions - problems encountered in cross-border business relations, including those relating to technical requirements (rapporteur: Mr Muller, Various Interests Group, Luxembourg; co-rapporteur: Mr Folias, Employers' Group, Greece).

Measures under Phare will be coordinated with structural policies, especially Interreg II. The objectives of the new programme were largely based on cross- frontier cooperation programmes in the Community; the programme aims to promote cooperation with countries of central and eastern Europe bordering on the Community so as to help them to solve their specific development problems due to their relative isolation within national economies; encouragement will also be given to the setting- up of cooperation networks and to linking them with the wider Community networks, Ecos and Ouverture.