Preparations for receiving the EU funds, or the dawn of the Croatian-Hungarian cross-border planning, with a special view on environmental
Preparations for receiving the EU funds, or the dawn of the Croatian-Hungarian cross-border planning, with a special view on environmental

Summary/Abstract: After the regime change, the Yugoslav civil war significantly slowed the building of official relations of the Croatian-Hungarian border and local municipal. Only after the turn of the millennium was the possibility created for a common design for laying the foundations. On the 25th of August 2000 was the first meeting held, which was later followed by more. The main objective was the preparation for drawing down the resources of the Croatian-Hungarian Pilot Small Projects Fund. The first joint program proved to be successful. Correlating with the deepening of EU’s relations between Croatia and our country the amount of available financial tools have increased, offering many new opportunities for the convergence of border areas, as evidenced by the number and diversity of the winning projects. In the Phare Hungary-Croatia Pilot Small Projects Fund we could find numerous winning projects, which attend to introduce the environmental characteristics of the Drava and Mura. Some of them encourage environmental education and the cooperation for environmental protection. By doing this, the region has taken the first steps to restore the common ecological space in the Mura-Drava area!

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