The long struggle of the outermost regions and the countries of which they form part to gain recognition of those regions’ unique position compared to the Union’s other regions reaped an invaluable reward when outermost status was legally recognised in primary Union law in 1997.
The long struggle of the outermost regions and the countries of which they form part to gain recognition of those regions’ unique position compared to the Union’s other regions reaped an invaluable reward when outermost status was legally recognised in primary Union law in 1997.