Cross-Border Governance and the Borders Evolutions – Introductory Study
Cross-Border Governance and the Borders Evolutions – Introductory Study

Summary/Abstract: The first formal efforts for cross-border cooperation have their beginnings in the ‘50s. Over time there have been important steps in order to extend, enhance and improve such cooperation, from the institutional structures to the funding programmes and guidelines for the programme. For example, in the last 20 years there have been initiatives playing a crucial role in cross-border and transnational networking across the EU. They have helped to improve border permeability in several dimensions of territorial development: economic, cultural, institutional, environmental, social and of infrastructure. The Eurolimes Journal has maintained a constant concern for the borders issue, publishing research in fifteen printed issues. This very issue locates the same area of interest, the research published here tapping into three fundamental concepts: border, cross-border governance and political organisation. In a postmodern world, a European world, dominated by tolerance and very much concerned with the effects of globalisation, all the Community institutions together with the national-state institutions have been trying to create a unified space for free movement, to neutralise and to diminish the barrier effect of the frontiers, encouraging the process of European unification . But this requires what is called “good governance”.

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