A look at the complex Polish‐Ukrainian border region; its history, multicultural issues, as well as the socioeconomic and political differences between EU member Poland and neighboring non‐member Ukraine.

European integration, through euro-regions, voluntary zones of cooperation across national borders, and the eastward expansion of the Schengen Zone have transformed Europe borderlands into sites of bi-national collaboration. This study evaluates how a group of Polish university students living in the Pomerania euro-region view the new ease of cross-border mobility and the types of crossborder activities they engage in. If the experience of students in the border city of Szczecin is reflective of other European borderlands, than cross-border cooperation has not diminished the importance of the border as a mental marker of nation-state boundaries or the importance of national identity.The ease of mobility across the PolishÁGerman Borderland and the cross-border cooperation in the region marks a new era of cooperation between these two European countries. In an age of European integration, interior borders between member countries are constructed as areas of transition and cooperation. The Schengen Accord, as of 2007, has nullified custom checkpoints at the border and removed physical barriers to mobility. In addition euro-regions, zones of crossborder interaction, are encouraging economic, political, and cultural integration among borderlanders by providing financial support for cross-border projects. Despite the new ease of cross-border mobility and financial incentives to develop cross-border networks, questions remain about the ability of the EU to contribute toward the erosion of mental borders supported by deep-rooted national identities.To learn more about individual attitudes toward the increasing openness and cooperation across the PolishÁGerman border, this article analyzes the attitudes toward cross-border integration held by a group of Polish university students studying in the northwestern Polish city of Szczecin. In-group interviews students were questioned about their cross-border mobility, their awareness of regional cross-border cooperation and their predications for future integration at the PolishÁGerman border. The interpretations of the responses from the students that participated in this study indicate that for this focus group, the PolishÁ German border is an easily traversed space yet an important marker of the division between two different nationalities. If the attitudes of this particular group of Polish students are similar to borderlanders in other parts of the EU, it suggests that *