The Northern Dimension -Changing the European Economic Space by the cross-border regional cooperation between the Enlarged EU and Slavic Areas

北方维度（ND）是欧盟的一项区域政策，不仅包括波罗的海和北海周边地区，还包括俄罗斯西北部地区。ND是欧洲自身的一个缩影。有些国家相对较小，与俄罗斯毗邻：欧盟和北约成员国（爱沙尼亚、拉脱维亚、立陶宛和丹麦）；非北约国家（芬兰、瑞典）；和非欧盟国家（冰岛、挪威）。因此，ND可以扮演“不分裂欧洲的实验室”的角色。我们把ND作为一个特殊的例子来研究，在这个例子中，欧盟微观层面的跨境区域合作与扩大后的欧盟与斯拉夫地区之间重组欧洲经济空间的宏观问题联系在一起。在研究期间，欧盟成员国从15个扩大到27个。这意味着，对于欧盟自身的稳定而言，与邻国的共存比以往任何时候都更为重要。因此，作为欧盟新工具的欧洲邻国政策形成了。它开启了“诸边开放区域治理”的可能性，通过欧盟“内”和“外”的跨境区域合作来重组欧洲经济空间，尽管它还在发展过程中。这是ND本身的问题。虽然新兴经济体的原创性正在消退，但其理念却在欧洲邻国政策中得以延续。即使俄罗斯因素仍然是一个不稳定因素，但在对ND地区各种合作的探索中，出现了基于跨界区域商、政、学合作（三螺旋模式）的区域经济合作——“波罗的海地区”。现在我们发现了改变欧洲经济空间的可能性，通过将俄罗斯因素纳入新兴市场的增长因素。

The Northern dimension (ND) is a regional policy of the EU covering not only regions around the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, but also north-west regions of Russia. ND is a microcosm of Europe itself. There are countries relatively small and proximate to Russia: members of both the EU and NATO (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Denmark); non-NATO country (Finland, Sweden); and non-EU country (Iceland, Norway). Therefore, ND could play the role of "a laboratory of making Europe without dividing".We studied ND as a special example in which cross-border regional cooperation at the micro-area level in the EU is linked to macro problems of reorganizing the European Economy Space between the Enlarged EU and Slavic Areas. The EU enlarged from 15 to 27 members in the period of the study. It means that coexistence with the neighbouring countries is more important than ever for the stability of the EU itself. As a result, the European Neighbourhood Policy was formed as a new tool of the EU. It opens up the possibility of "plurilateral open-regional governance" towards reorganizing the European Economic Space by cross-border regional cooperation between "in" and "out" of the EU, although it is on the process of development. It is the problem of ND itself. Although the originality of ND is fading, its concept lives in European Neighbourhood Policy. Even if the Russian factor is still an unstable element, there emerges the regional economic cooperation-"Baltic Sea Region" based on cross-border regional cooperation between business, government and academia (Triple Helix Model) as a result of groping to various kinds of cooperation in the area of the ND. Now we found the possibility of changing the European Economic Space by including the Russian factor in the growth factor in the ND.