Mały ruch graniczny – konsekwencje dla regionów przygranicznych

Abstract

Local border traffic at the Polish section of the European Union external border as a factor influencing the development of border regions
 It is in the interest of the European Union and Poland to ensure that the borders with its neighbors are not a barrier to trade, social and cultural interchange or regional cooperation. Such indication was included in the preamble of the Regulation No. 1931/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down rules on local border traffic at the external land borders of the Member States. The institution of local border traffic is very popular among the citizens of border areas. Thus – in the light of scale of the phenomenon – numerous questions arise: whether (in the economic dimension) the balance of the consequences of the implementation of the agreements on LBT is positive? Does an asymmetry of benefits take place, ie. the implementation of the agreement is more beneficial for one of its sides? Given the above views, the purpose of this article is the assessment of the economic consequences of its implementation (on the background of the prerequisite for the establishment of the LBT).

Tourist Clusters as a Factor in Activating Cross-Border Spatial Development

“…Thus, among the particular types of cross-border travel (shopping, family visits, as well as cultural, sports-recreational and educational) purely tourist destinations are only in third place. It is worth noting that the mechanisms for local border traffic (mały ruch graniczny -MRG) have not yet been implemented on the Polish-Belarusian border, unlike Russia (suspended in recent years) and Ukraine (Piekutowska, 2016), which will bring favourable results for border regions. In 2017-2018, arrivals of non-Poles relative to the number of outgoing Poles on the Polish-Belarussian border was about 8.0 (7.9-8.3 times more Belarussians and other non-Poles crossed the borders into Poland than Poles to Belarus).…”