Talk:Region (Europe)

message: I'm having problems parsing the first sentence: "The European Union follows to strengthen the Regions of Europe as the layer of EU government administration directly below the nation state level."
Follows to strengthen?  Can someone rework that a bit?  JohnRDaily 01:23, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've made the text more legible, but I don't know how accurate the result is. -JohnRDaily 02:35, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  A bit confused 

message: What are the sources for the division of Sweden into Götaland, Svealand and Norrland in this system? That division is a historical and cultural division, but it is not an administrative division in any way, at least I haven't heard of it being used as such. And I've lived in Sweden for 20 years... Also, the flags seem very inaccurate. The flag of Skåneland is not used in the whole of Götaland, only in the south. The Sami flag is only used by the Sami, and the flag of Sweden is of course not used only in Svealand. Also, the flag used for the Oulu Province is the Ingrian flag, and Ingria is an area on the south-eastern border between Finland and Russia, far away from Oulu... /130.243.135.145 18:12, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm currently going through all the countries, adding numbers and correcting them, and using correct flags (if any). I'm afraid I haven't been able to find a source on the internet yet, so I can't say too much about the rather historical divisions for the Swedish and Czech partitions, and the Greek division is mainly guesswork on my part... —Nightstallion (?) 06:53, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, it seems more correct now. However, I wonder why Nord-Pas de Calais and Pays-de-la-Loire, which are separated by both Normandy and Picardy, are counted as one region. /130.243.135.145 23:05, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

text: I have seen Nord-Pas de Calais and Picardie as beeing combined before. Pays de la Loire I guess stays on its own.
The data for Ulster arent right cause for this region only the RoI area counts.
This whole list is currently based far too much on assumptions -- mine, mainly -- and far too little on source. Can someone please come up with references for this? —Nightstallion (?) 08:51, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Official status 

message: What is the justification for pairing some of these regions (e.g. North East England and North West England or Navarra and La Rioja)?  
The first line "The European Union created the Regions of Europe as the layer of EU government administration directly below the nation-state level" is simply not true. The whole thing looks like POV original research and should in muy view be replaced by a brief factual description of the Committee of the Regions and a pointer to Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics.--Henrygb 18:18, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have no idea, actually. I tried to find some references for this, but was unable to. —Nightstallion (?) Seen this already? 01:34, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pairing of regions 

message: I've just created NUTS:HU and the three main (NUTS 1) regions described there are quite different from those mentioned in this chart. The three main regions of Hungary according to this article are "Central Hungary", "Transdanubia" and "Great Plain and North" (I'm not sure of the English name of the latter but I'm practically sure of its extent). I have several sources for them (see its "Sources and external links" section). Are these regions different from the NUTS 1 or is the data wrong in this chart? Adam78 01:12, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The charts is most likely completely made up. I've now removed it for good after considering it for quite some time, as I haven't been able to find *any* sources. —Nightstallion (?) 12:33, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regions of Hungary – wrong?