The future of Europe combines renowned development issues with alternative scenarios and new policy actions. Large-scale investments in infrastructure are altering the geographical conditions of the continent and interacting with the potential new land-use patterns. The Oresund Bridge is constructed between Copenhagen (Denmark) and Malmö (Sweden) across the Oresund region, which merges with the recent Swedish entrance into the European Union, making a development of the first cross-national integrated large-city region, the Oresund Region. A combination of greater Copenhagen and the Malmö-Lund agglomeration gives the two non-interdependent urban cites, an economic access for specialization and opens up for co-operation as yet unforeseen region. Throughout history of this region, there has been strong trade links between Eastern Denmark and Southern Sweden. So, in 2000 "the Oresund Region" was not firmly established under single trade link but waited until the fixed link between Denmark and Sweden became a huge trade center. In beginning of 2010 the Oresund region celebrates its 10 year anniversary.
The Oresund Region comprises combination of two states, and therefore has no common governing body functioning. However, the nationalized government bodies help on several levels to make the Oresund regions political issues available for all of its inhabitants. The best example of this is the establishment of the ‘The Oresund Committee’, which is a regional community created for political cooperation which consists of politicians from both countries and has been hard working since long for eliminating national administrative boundaries since 1993.
