The Hungarian-Romanian border region in the Hungarian national and local press (1990–2005)
The Hungarian-Romanian border region in the Hungarian national and local press (1990–2005)

Summary/Abstract: Abstract: The goal of the analysis of several leading Hungarian national and county level newspapers from the years between 1990 and 2005 is to amplify the results of the empirical research and to create a thorough understanding of the appearance of the most important topics concerning the Hungarian-Romanian border regions in these newspapers, which have a significant effect on the general public. The immediate object of this analysis is the overview of all articles concerning the Hungarian and Romanian state borders (because of the size of the paper without concrete reference to the articles). During the research we focused on the following concrete issues: · various cross-border economic connections (e.g. Hungarian-Romanian trade, investments in the regions, settlement of enterprises), · frameworks, forms and content of institutional cross-border cooperation (cooperation of euroregions, local governments, chambers, various professional organizations etc.), · social and cultural connections (concrete CBC projects), interethnic connections, · identity (regionalism, the idea of a common region), legal conditions and characteristics of border traffic institutionspolitical dimensions of cross-border cooperation (e.g. issues of security policy),other important issues concerning CBC.

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