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One main focus of analysis is the attempt to establish links between, on the one hand, processes of internationalisation of the economy (“globalisation”) and, on the other hand, the local level and the development of a European macro-region, and to ask what opportunities emerge from such links for a regulation – and thereby “re-embedding” – of “disembedded” capital flows. Another major focus is the whole problematic arising from the fact that trade unions are organised on a national level: how can the unions effectively transmute the shift in the balance of power in industrial relations arising from the fact that capital has, given the growing freedom of international capital movements, increasing “exit options” and is thus able to operate over the heads of nationally regulated labour markets or can, at least, threaten to do so? In other words, is the much hailed “international solidarity” a realistic option for the trade union movement, one with which it – at least in the European orbit – can pit itself against the real internationalisation of capital? But – and this was a further focus of the analyses – how real is the internationalisation of capital, which, thanks to the currency of the media buzz word “globalisation”, is often taken at face value, without any attempt at further enquiry?

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