Portugal - Europe: Spaces Border and Cross-border Cooperation
Portugal - Europe: Spaces Border and Cross-border Cooperation

Summary/Abstract: The border is an area of transition in time, but it becomes a relevant space of identities. Thus, the borders as spaces of confrontation and dialogue are both areas of consolidation and differences, whose multiplication generates its own identity and autonomy. As such, the Portuguese-Spanish border cooperation has proved to be of particular importance to the rigidity of blurring boundaries, to integrate territories to refocus peripheries. In this sense, were overcome mere local neighborhood relations and contacts were established increasingly close links between the two peoples and two states of the Iberian Peninsula. The consecration of territorial cooperation as one of the objectives of the nodal European cohesion policy was expressed in the regulations governing the Structural Funds - the REG (EC) 1083/2006 of 11 July (general provisions) and REG (EC) 1080/2006, 5 July (provisions on ERDF). The support there shaped devotes three strands of cooperation. Namely: Cross Border Corporation; transnational cooperation, interregional cooperation. And now is time to express another thought and emphasis on the aim of this work - analyse (albeit brief) theme Portugal - Europe: Spaces border, cross-border cooperation and to better clarify the issue above-mentioned study the Cooperation Programme Portugal-Spain border 2007-2013.

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