The main goals of this work group are:
• Highlighting issues, options, areas of responsibility, and specific activities of these regions;
• Representation of their shared interest with the parliaments, legal entities, authorities and institutions on national and international levels;
• Initiation, support and coordination of cooperation between the regions through Europe;
• Encouragement to exchange experience and information to identify and coordinate the shared interests at the diverse issues and options, as well as to suggest potential solutions.
The work group of European border regions also does lobby work through the representation of the voice of the cross-border regions in the European institutes.