Catalonia is one of the country's wealthiest and most dynamic regions, but it also has an influential separatist movement.
Initially, this fall in UK and EU students was more than matched by increases in students from more economically dynamic regions outside Europe.
While a boon for Japan's faltering tourism industry, the new tourists are also a sign of larger economic changes in one of the world's most dynamic regions.
He led three dynamic regions — Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, and Shanghai — that were by population, economic vitality and social complexity the equivalent of three European nations.
But both he and Mr Fukuda also appear keen to reassure economically less dynamic regions that they will be looked after.
This week it hosted the ninth Asia-Europe meeting, which brings together leaders from the world's most and least dynamic regions.
The motivation for the governments to reopen the tunnel is clear: as Europe integrates its economies, the Alps have the effrontery to lie smack between several of the Continent's most economically dynamic regions, in northern Italy and southern France and Germany.
It was an important trading post in the 14th century, and again from the 19th, when British diplomat Sir Stamford Raffles founded the modern city.Now it is at the heart of one of the world's most dynamic regions.
"As the postcrisis world takes shape, Europe risks being left even further behind, especially as the dynamic regions of the world are bolting out of the stables," he said.
After years of slogging combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, Team Obama yearns to engage more with Asia and other dynamic regions, and to talk about something other than war.
Dynamic regions need new industries to arise (Martin, 2010).
