Euroregions as political actors: managing border policies in the time of Covid-19 in Polish borderlands

Opioła, Wojciech; Hans, Böhm

doi:10.1080/21622671.2021.2017339

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“…Moreover, our results illustrate that border regions were dependent on national decisions, on which border actors had little impact. This confirms the findings of Opioła and Böhm (2022), who note a limited influence of Euroregions on national decisions. Both support the conclusion that communication channels between the cross-border and national levels need to be strengthened.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 90%

“…This is a significant handicap for border regions, as they tend to rely on cross-border connections (Kajta & Opiłowska, 2021;Novotný, 2021). Opioła and Böhm (2022) studied the impact of Euroregions along Polish national borders during the COVID-19 pandemic and found diverse border-regional patterns. They concluded that Euroregions only had a marginal impact on national decision making, even though effective cross-border cooperation in crises and cross-border resilience require national decisions and national interest in border issues (cf.…”

Section: Border-regional Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

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The COVID-19 pandemic as a catalyst of cross-border cooperation? Lessons learnt for border-regional resilience

Hippe

Bertram

2022

Eur. XXI

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The COVID-19 pandemic led to a suspension of the Schengen Agreement within the European Union: national borders were partially controlled or closed. Especially in European border regions, where the idea of European integration is most evident, this led to limitations of cross-border linkages, putting the question of border-regional resilience into the focus of border studies. Based on the case study of German border regions, we operationalize the various impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic alongside the German border. Particularly interesting with regard to the concept of border-regional resilience are the results of a two-stage Delphi survey with border-regional experts. Even if the border closures as such were a political crisis, some of the long-term effects might be considered positive.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 90%

Section: Border-regional Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

The COVID-19 pandemic as a catalyst of cross-border cooperation? Lessons learnt for border-regional resilience

Hippe

Bertram

2022

Eur. XXI

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“…Qualitative, as well as quantitative approaches, can be seen. Descriptive analysis (e.g., document or social media analysis), as well as (semi‐structured) interviews, are the prevailing forms of qualitative research in the selected articles (e.g., Baez Moreno, 2020; Böhm, 2022; de Vries, 2020; Leiblfinger et al, 2021; Martin & Bergmann, 2021; Medeiros et al, 2021; Novotný, 2021; Opioła & Böhm, 2022; Virkkunen, 2020; Wu, 2021; Zhou et al, 2021). In addition to this, multiple forms of statistical modeling can be found (e.g., Hamidi et al, 2020; Laroze et al, 2021; Wilmes et al, 2021).…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

EU labor policy recommendations drawn from COVID‐driven research attention on cross‐border commuting – A review

Trager

2023

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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This paper aims to investigate which EU cross-border labor policy recommendations can be drawn from COVID-driven research attention. For this purpose, a systematic literature review with an in-depth qualitative analysis of selected articles was performed. Overall, three major categories of recommendations were revealed. Besides recommendations on contagion policy and the centrality of decision-making, recommendations on solving the social impact of the pandemic on the reputation of cross-border commuters can be deduced. The three categories are unified by the need for more regional but cross-border approaches in decisionmaking and research in general. Seeing the EU rather more as a constellation of various economic and social regions, including cross-border communities, than a total of countries divided by national borders, would benefit EU labor policy and cross-border commuters automaticallynot only in times of crises. Exploiting new spatial research methods to analyze (labor) mobility within border regions enables novel contributions to the state of research.

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“…Asymmetry in the socioeconomic development of border regions is an opportunity for mutual compensation of regional shortages at cultural, tourism and economic levels as well the labour market, services, etc. The existing development disparities can be a difficult barrier to overcome, limiting cross-border ties, particularly in institutional cooperation (Masik & Sagan, 2016;Opioła & Böhm, 2022), which creates the basis for integration. Important factors limiting the reduction of asymmetry include relations between neighbouring states, position in the international environment, institutional environment and associated conditions (related to the presence of an institutional and organisational gap), socio-demographic conditions (related to multiculturality and unfavourable demographic processes), as well as economic conditions resulting from existing differences in economic systems and levels of development of borderlands (Komornicki et al, 2019).…”

Section: An Analysis Of the Turów Crisismentioning

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Asymetria jako czynnik osłabiający odporność i integrację w zrównoważonym rozwoju polsko-czeskiego pogranicza w kontekście sporu o kopalnię Turów

Łaźniewska¹,

Boháč²,

Kurowska‐Pysz³

2023

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By analysing asymmetry in socioeconomic and environmental development in the Polish-Czech borderland, we contribute to the discussion on its impacts as a factor weakening resilience and integration for the purposes of sustainable development in the region. In the article, we use the results of the studies under the Project The crisis at the Turów Mine and its impact on Czech-Polish cross-border cooperation: An evaluation, conclusions and recommendations, funded by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange in 2022. The main aim of our research is to draw conclusions for territorial self-governments as to how they should strengthen sustainable development based on integration with foreign partners, thus enhancing resilience. We draw conclusions based on qualitative research, statistical analyses and literature studies. One of the key conclusions which can be drawn from the present study is that the asymmetry visible in many socioeconomic areas weakens the resilience of institutional structures to crises, resulting in barely discernible cooperation between these regions.

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Euroregions as political actors: managing border policies in the time of Covid-19 in Polish borderlands

Cited by 29 publications

References 47 publications

The COVID-19 pandemic as a catalyst of cross-border cooperation? Lessons learnt for border-regional resilience

The COVID-19 pandemic as a catalyst of cross-border cooperation? Lessons learnt for border-regional resilience

EU labor policy recommendations drawn from COVID‐driven research attention on cross‐border commuting – A review

Asymetria jako czynnik osłabiający odporność i integrację w zrównoważonym rozwoju polsko-czeskiego pogranicza w kontekście sporu o kopalnię Turów

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