Abstract
The cross-border regions, which are the peripheral regions, are struggling with m troubles. They often include high unemployment, insufficiently developed infrastructure, or inadequate language skills of residents, which are barriers to exploiting the potential of such regions. One kind of remedy is the assumption of the European Union’s regional policy, under which Euroregions are created. These units, constituting a form of cooperation between the regions of the European Union member states, candidate countries, and the regions of their neighbors, with the support of local and regional authorities, constitute support for the competitiveness and development of border areas. The purpose of this study is to verify how people perceive the activity and effectiveness of Euroregions, as well as to try to determine whether they think Euroregions contribute to local and regional development. In this research, an online and self-administered survey was used, with two parts: one related to Euroregions in general, and the other to a specific, selected Euroregion. Despite the fact that the Polish experience has not been as long as in other parts of Europe, the results show that the Euroregions are positively evaluated by people, and they rate them as important for development of the regions.
Highlights
All economies evolve and develop over time, and there have been many theories developed that have tried to explain this
The Euroregion is above all a form of cooperation between regions of the Member States of the European Union, candidate countries, and regions of their neighbors (55% of indications), and just a separate European region, located on the border of two or more neighboring countries (50%)
A minority said that it is an organization established to coordinate cooperation in an area located on the border of two or more neighboring countries by the parties to the Euroregional Agreement and approved by the European Union, which financially support its activities (37%) and a unit, the creation and development of which involved representatives of local and regional self-government authorities (27%) (Figure 1)
Summary
All economies evolve and develop over time, and there have been many theories developed that have tried to explain this. For the local and regional development of border regions, one of significance is cross-border cooperation (CBC). It is not important if this cooperation is within the Euroregions, but the solutions of the European Union have made this cooperation easier, but in contemporary times, the Euroregions mean exactly CBC. The border regions, treated as less important and peripheral, have got a new opportunity. The Euroregions allow them to animate cooperation in every important field for the region. Bottom-up policies have caused local entities and society to be more significant for the regions, which should be more interested in local and regional development. Planned cross-border cooperation should contribute to the development and growth of the region. The CBC plays an important role in this process [1,2]
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