Development of cross-border cooperation at the EU's external borders on the example of Serbia and neighboring border regions
The speech aims to present the spatial and vertical formations of the cross-border connections, organizations and networks between the border regions of Serbia and the neighboring EU Member States. Serbia's external transit to the EU's external borders and its neighbors started late in 2004, but have been largely evolving since 2000. Co-operation will start with low-efficiency Euroregional associations and will continue with the EU INTERREG IIIA and CARDS and IPA (I, II, III) CBC, which will implement a wide range of forms of contact with its support system, generating less strong networking. The development of networks and a few associations is sometimes modified by interstate relations in the form of sectoral cross-border co-operations, the effectiveness of which is characteristic mainly of bilateral spatial and economic development (agriculture, tourism, etc.), education and culture network. In a geographical sense, networks and collaborations are linked to regional centers, the role of rural areas are smaller and mainly limited to town twinning.
The differences in Serbia's current cross-border co-operation are mainly determined by the geographical, ethnic (the contact capital of the national minorities are living in the neighbouring regions), economic structure and current political characteristics of transport. Therefore, the associations and networks that characterize CBC relations are mainly typical of Serbia-Croatia, Serbia-Hungary and Serbia-Romania, and there are results in the field of EU and economic co-operation with Bulgaria. IPA III relations with northern Macedonia started in the 2014-2020 programming period, based on the previous level of Euroregional co-operation, with Montenegro dominated by day-to-day relations between border regions and EU IPA CBC relations.
Mots clés : border regions| co-operation network|external border| Serbia
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