Abstract
This paper analyzes passengers' traffic across the border crossings and demographic trends in Croatian-Hungarian border area. The aim of this work is to determine the intensity of transborder relations and processes in neighbouring areas in the period of "loosening" of the Croatian-Hungarian border and their reflection in space. This will be determined through the analysis of the population trends in the last intercensal period (1991-2001 in Croatia, 1990-2001 in Hungary). The assumption is that significant transborder cooperation has not been established yet and that a transborder region has not been formed despite the "loosening" of the border. This statement has been confirmed by comparing demographic trends in the settlements with border crossings, in the settlements along the border, but without border crossings, in the settlements that are within 10 km from the border, but do not have an exit to it and finally, in other settlements of the border area from the Croatian and Hungarian side of the border.
Highlights
With disappearance of the "iron curtain" and growing tendencies for expanding the European Union to the east, the interstate cooperation between former socialist states and well-developed states of the European Union has constantly been firming in the last fifteen years
The analysis of population trends included all settlements in Croatian-Hungarian border area, which is defined according to the above-mentioned criteria
The results show that both in Croatia and in Hungary the settlements that are closer to the border record a larger decrease in number of inhabitants (Tab. 1, Tab. 2)
Summary
Primljeno: 2004-05-11 Received: This paper analyzes passengers' traffic across the border crossings and demographic trends in Croatian-Hungarian border area. The assumption is that significant transborder cooperation has not been established yet and that a transborder region has not been formed despite the "loosening" of the border This statement has been confirmed by comparing demographic trends in the settlements with border crossings, in the settlements along the border, but without border crossings, in the settlements that are within 10 km from the border, but do not have an exit to it and in other settlements of the border area from the Croatian and Hungarian side of the border. U radu su analizirani promet putnika preko graničnih prijelaza te demografska kretanja u hrvatsko-mađarskom pograničnom području. U Mađarskoj) utvrditi intenzitet transgraničnih odnosa i procesa u susjednim područjima u razdoblju "omekšavanja" hrvatsko-mađarske granice te njihov odraz u geoprostoru.
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