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THIS PAPER SUGGESTS THAT, THOUGH CITIZENSHIP IS USUALLY THOUGHT OF IN TERMS OF HOW INDIVIDUALS RELATE TO THEIR NATION-STATES, SOME DIMENSIONS OF THE CONCEPT ARE RELEVANT TO THE INTERESTS OF COLLECTIVITIES OF CITIZENS IN SUB-STATE OR TANS-STATE REGIONS. IN DOING SO, THE PAPER DRAWS TOGETHER SOME OF THE MAIN THREADS OF THE OTHER PAPERS: FOR EXAMPLE, PROBLEMS IN IDENTIFYING REGIONAL INTERESTS, THE PROPER AND EFFECTIVE CHANNELS FOR THEIR ARTICULATIONS, THE PLACE OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS AS ONE OF THE CHANNELS, AND THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN VIEWS ABOUT THE COMMITTEE AND VISIONS OF INTEGRATION.

There is common ground about NI's material interests and their political representation in Brussels through Westminster. But policy which requires cross-border cooperation can be seen by unionists as `creeping' Irish unification. Concessions to some cross-border cooperation have been made in recent initiatives. Concludes thus that there is scope for participants of different persuasions to concentrate upon improving defects internal to the UK and on the appropriate composition and functions of ad hoc cross-border authorities. (Original abstract-amended)