Lessons from the Danish-German Border Region for Post 2020 Interreg A – an Alignment with Cross-Border Functional Regions?

Klatt, Martin

doi:10.7163/eu21.2020.38.5

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“…Despite increasing disparities, the German-Danish border area in particular is characterised by a high level of integration and good conditions for the development of functional links. In this case, increasing disparities could be explained by the one-sided cross-border approach in business, while the market size explains flows (Klatt & Winkler, 2020). In the Latvian-Lithuanian and Bulgarian-Romanian borderlands, an increase in the level of asymmetry was a consequence of the dynamisation of development processes in one part of the borderland (respectively: Lithuanian and Romanian), and stagnation in the other (Latvian and Bulgarian).…”

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“…It fosters not only multifaceted strengthening of cross-border ties (Sousa, 2013), but also economic development of border areas (Basboga, 2020;Howaniec & Lis, 2020 This catalogue is of course not exhaustive. Each of the above factors, however, has a significant impact on the development of functional, and consequently institutionalised cross-border regions, increasing the regional growth potential of border areas (Klatt & Winkler, 2020). Do the aforementioned changes lead to a reduction in the level of asymmetry in economic development and cohesion of cross-border areas?…”

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Asymmetry of the economic development of cross-border areas in the European Union: assessment and typology

Jakubowski

2020

Eur. XXI

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The article aims to characterise the phenomenon, determine the degree, and analyse the dynamics and directions of change in the level of asymmetry of economic development of cross-border areas in the European Union (EU) based on GDP per capita (PPP). It also aims to propose a typology of cross-border areas in the EU considering the above criteria. The obtained results show that despite a relatively evident reduction of the level of asymmetry of economic development in many cases in the period 1990-2015, and particularly after 2004, many cross-border areas show significant disparities in the economic sphere. Moreover, the dynamics of the observed transformations remain spatially differentiated.

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Asymmetry of the economic development of cross-border areas in the European Union: assessment and typology

Jakubowski

2020

Eur. XXI

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“…All the instruments mentioned above are not new. However, the TA 2030 demonstrates how they can be used effectively to facilitate stable cooperation between administrative areas beyond single projects, 'better aligned with long-term, cross-border economic strategies to create sustainable cross-border development' (Klatt & Winkler, 2020).…”

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New approach towards border regions in the Territorial Agenda 2030

Jakubowski

Miszczuk

2021

Eur. XXI

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Border regions are commonly perceived as peripheral in terms of transport accessibility and socio-economic development. The peripherality has meant that they have been and continue to be beneficiaries of a traditionally understood – i.e. compensatory – paradigm of regional development. To a large extent, this has been the character of the European Union Cohesion Policy to date. However, a new paradigm of regional development, manifested by the Territorial Agenda 2030, is becoming more and more popular. The article debates possible actions to be taken in regions along national borders to achieve their strategic objectives using the multi-level governance and territorial capital concepts and referring to the six priorities of the Territorial Agenda 2030.

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“…Jak wskazuje Słomczyńska (2014, s. 6), "[u] podstaw koncepcji strategii makroregionalnych leży przekonanie, że poczucie tożsamości regionalnej mające wpływ na rozwój społeczny, gospodarczy i kulturowy, może być wykorzystane do zbudowania planu i strategii działania wykraczających poza istniejące rozwiązania (…)", a tym samym do pogłębiania relacji pomiędzy regionami i krajami. Zakłada się, że polityka spójności może też w sposób odgórny uzupełniać czynniki napędzające interakcje transgraniczne (Klatt i Winkler, 2020).…”

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“…nie tylko połączenia z metropoliami, ale też z obszarami bezpośrednio przyległymi, w celu wzmacniania potencjału obszarów przygranicznych w BSR (por. BT2050, 2020; Klatt i Winkler, 2020).…”

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Powiązania handlowe wewnątrz makroregionu Morza Bałtyckiego – w kierunku integracji regionalnej = Trade linkages within the Baltic Sea region – towards regional integration

Szejgiec-Kolenda

Duma

2020

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Two events exerted an essential influence on the development of collaboration in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) in the 21st century, namely: extension of the EU in 2004, due to which Baltic Sea became the inner sea of the EU (except for the Russian coast), and the elaboration and implementation in 2009 of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, which established the framework for the contemporary deepening of cooperation among the Baltic states inside the EU structures. The initially adopted model of cooperation concentrated on the key environmental issues, to then get extended towards the policy domain, including the transborder policies (institutional cooperation), as well as transport and economic connections (Palmowski, 2017). The article, while following the stream of the current studies of the BSR as an economic region, tries to fill the gap of complexity and dynamism of development processes, concerning the scale and intensity of mutual economic relations in relation to BSR. Thus, the article presents the basic aspects, associated with the introduction of the macroregional strategies in the EU and a short description of the economic integration process of the BSR. Analysis is presented of the most important regularities regarding trade exchange between the countries of the BSR, with consideration of the quantitative changes (volume, dynamics), and of the structural ones (specialization of trade in goods and services), as well as the trade linkages at the local level, as seen from the perspective of Polish exports (case study). International comparisons are based primarily on the economic data on foreign trade in goods and in services. The analysis concentrates on the assessment of the transformations in the years 2011 2019 (for trade in services: 2011 2018), that is – already after the establishment of the Strategy and the period of recession, resulting from the global crisis of 2008. In the course of the recent years the changes in the trade linkages considered brought a significant increase in the volume of trade, both concerning goods and services (46.3%), which confirms the initial proposition of the deepening integration within the BSR. Yet, this process takes place in a spatially uneven manner, and it is significantly stronger for the trade in goods than for the services. Internal trade inside the region accounts for as much as 23.7% of the total trade of the BSR countries (this share for the EU countries amounting to 60.0%). Nowadays, the internal trade with the BSR countries is of the highest importance for the small economies of the Baltic states, which is partly due to their intermediate position between Western Europe and Eastern Europe (including, especially, Russia). The analysis of the spatial development of trade with the Nordic countries at the local level in Poland demonstrates the persistence of the applicability and popularity of the gravity models in the study of regula ities, associated with the development of export relations; for the local economies the distance to the sales market and the local economic base are the essential factors, differentiating the magnitude and the significance of exports, in this case – to the Nordic countries. The macroregional Strategy might be treated as a new form of diversified integration within the EU, while the elaborated instruments of the policy and the strategy implementation process can be seen as the response to the need of the cohesion policy, dedicated to the particular areas of supranational dimensions (Gänzle & Kern, 2016). The BSR is strongly internally differentiated, this statement applying to economic, social and demographic aspects (Kubka, 2018). Moreover, it can be expected that the region will remain a heterogeneous area (Laaser & Schrader, 2002), also in terms of the regional trade patterns. Thereby, new questions arise, concerning the further process of economic integration and the specificity of cooperation in the framework of the BSR.

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Lessons from the Danish-German Border Region for Post 2020 Interreg A – an Alignment with Cross-Border Functional Regions?

Cited by 8 publications

References 45 publications

Asymmetry of the economic development of cross-border areas in the European Union: assessment and typology

Asymmetry of the economic development of cross-border areas in the European Union: assessment and typology

New approach towards border regions in the Territorial Agenda 2030

Powiązania handlowe wewnątrz makroregionu Morza Bałtyckiego – w kierunku integracji regionalnej = Trade linkages within the Baltic Sea region – towards regional integration

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