Luis Filipe Menezes, President of the
Eixo Atlántico do Noroeste Peninsular

Eixo Atlántico

Cities of the Eixo

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Eixo Atlántico do Noroeste Peninsular is a transborder association integrated by the main cities of the Euroregion Galicia - North of Portugal, forming its urban system.
Created in 1992, with the support of the European Commission, its foundation was sponsored under the person of the President of the Republic of Portugal, Mr. Mário Soares, who presided over the constituent assembly in Viana do Castelo.

It is until now the only structured Euroregional urban system of transborder nature, in the European Union. Its primary objective is the cohesion and the structuring of the urban system, as well as the contribution to the modernization of the cities by developing network programs, cooperation, information exchange and joint strategic planning.

Located in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula, the Euroregion North of Portugal - Galicia has a surface of 50.853 km2 and a population of approximately 7 million inhabitants. Of maritime and periphery nature has an important communication network, in constant growth, four airports and three international aerodromes, 7 big ports and one network of high speed train in construction. It has also 12 top universities, 3 big technology parks and 9 fairgrounds.

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