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José Antonio Griñán Garcia (President of the Junta da Andalucia) is the first President of the Alentejo – Algarve – Andalucia Euroregion. The new region was set up this spring in Faro, and will work to bring more opportunities to the citizens of three regions. Euroregions is an association of local and regional authorities on either side of the border. It hopes to be a trans-frontier association with a permanent government board as well a technical and administrative group with it’s own resources. In European politics, the term Euroregion usually refers to a transnational co-operation structure between two (or more) contiguous territories located in different European countries.