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An­na La­u­ra Hidegh – An­na Er­zsé­bet Mik­lós On Euro-re­gions from Slovak-Hungarian Point of View

In the Europe of the 21st C, be­ing along the bor­der, togeth­er with all its ques­tions and issues – although hope­ful­ly for a short time to be so – is a con­cept that can­not be evad­ed. The his­tor­i­cal changes given by the pre­vi­ous cen­tu­ry, and/or the Euro­pean Union inte­gra­tion that has become mo­re and mo­re inten­sive ori­ent the atten­tion to this issue. Cross-bor­der co-­op­er­a­tion that arise from the issue of be­ing sit­u­at­ed along the bor­der is rea­soned with a num­ber of fac­tors in Cen­tral and East Europe: from one hand the ten­den­cie valid for the whole Euro­pean con­ti­nen­t, on the other hand the spec­i­fi­ca­tions cre­at­ed due to the his­tor­i­cal events. It can be gen­er­al­ly said from the point of view of the whole Europe that there are cer­tain eco­nom­ic, and/or envi­ron­men­tal phe­nom­e­na that know no bor­der­s. In order to use resources effec­tive­ly, to cre­ate labour divi­sion, and con­se­quent­ly to cre­ate com­pete­tive­ness it is nec­es­sary for cer­tain geo­graph­i­cal units that cross bor­ders to co-­op­er­ate. We have con­sid­ered impor­tant now, in 2006, to talk about the euro-re­gion­s, since the impor­tance of their mis­sion has only been grow­ing in the last peri­od. From May 2004 the East­ern and South­ern bor­ders of Hun­ga­ry... continue reading →