The Øresund Region is already a reality.  This is the opinion of the Danes and of more than half of the Swedes living in the Region. More than 60 percent of the Swedes feel that they are citizens in the Øresund Region. These are the findings in a newly published yearly analyses made by Øresundsbro Konsortiet, which is a body under the Danish Ministry of Transport.

The survey of the population’s knowledge of and meaning about the Region has been carried out since 2001. In December 2007, 1200 persons in Zealand and in Scania participated.  It is worth noticing that 65 percent of the Swedes in the Øresund Region now consider the region a reality – an increase of 10 percent point compared with last year. On the Danish side the figure is 40 percent which is an increase at 4 percentage point compared with last year.
 
84 percent of the interviewee thought that it was “well”  or “very well” that more people settle, study or work on the other side of the Øresund.

It becomes also more and more common to see Swedish people working in Denmark. 74 percent of the Danes say that they have been attended to by a Swede or have been in contact with Swedish people in a Danish company.

-In the past years it is clear that Scania has benefitted most from the Region and therefore the notion of a region is most present in the minds of the Swedes. In the long run however the region will be much more significant for Copenhagen as the metropolis will need Scania in terms of labour force, supply and customers etc., states Karsten Längerich, strategic analyst at Øresundsbro Konsortiet.