Border Of EU Research Articles

Cross-border cooperation on the external borders of the EU and the impact of the received EU CBC funds on AP Vojvodina/Serbia

The paper presents the various network types between municipalities/settlements within a single project program and at the level of all other analysed border programs in EU border regions that are components of European Territorial Cooperation. It also shows examples of prosperous cross-border networks (Serbia-Hungary, Serbia-Croatia, Serbia-Romania, Serbia-Bulgaria) of interested communities: what positions they have and what the weight of the border settlements is in the network of cooperation in horizontal sense. Furthermore, it discusses differences of network types of cross-border cooperation of municipalities based on financial assistance from EU, IPA funds (2007-2013) in Vojvodina/Serbia as a border region at the external border of EU. The paper tries to define its spatial differentiation on the basis of number of applications and the amount of financial aid, as well as to present different degrees of involvement of border municipalities/settlements in cross-border cooperation with the municipalities of the neighbouring EU regions.

Immagini dal confine. Migranti, spazi simbolici e ordine politico contemporaneo

The article is about three major themes: the political imaginary, the border as a space from which it spreads, the images, that convey and reproducing it, cause social reality. This last part was developed by the analysis of a specific case study. In this work the author investigates how the sense of political e collective identity and the social construction comes out by the analysis of the most web popular migrants images in Lampedusa (the most extreme border of the EU).

Bezpečnostní management - systémový přístup

Cilem sděleni je využiti systemoveho přistupu k uchopeni bezpecnostniho managementu, jako praktickeho oboru a nove vědni discipliny. Filosofie systemoveho přistupu k řeseni problemů obecně je vhodným metodologickým zakladem i pro teorii managementu. Cesta ke skutecne optimalizaci bezpecnostni situace v managementu vede jen přes holisticke, celistve řeseni. Aplikace ze systemove analýzy a syntezy dokladaji, že systemový přistup a systemove mysleni v bezpecnostnich objektech nemaji absentovat. Pravdivost tvrzeni, že bezpecnostni management je etablovanou disciplinou, je zavisla na pokracujici diskusi, jež představuje užitecný proces vývoje nove vědni discipliny. Racionalita vědy a systemovosti působi zaroveň jako protivaha iracionalniho strachu cele lidske spolecnosti. Jake zůstavaji otevřene otazky bezpecnosti ve vztahu k „nasim zajmům“? Aktualni problemy Evropy by měly být řeseny systemově. Je třeba definovat zajmový prostor, teritorialně buď hranice EU, nebo Schengenskeho prostoru, zavest system na objekt s ohledem na hranice prostoru, specifikovat strukturu a subjekty rozhodovani a implementace. Klicova slova: Bezpecnostni management, systemový přistup, ICT, kybernetika, výzkum, krizove řizeni, systemove mysleni, terminologie. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18267/j.aip.79

Приграничное взаимодействие России и Евросоюза: тенденции и моделирование

For many centuries Europe has been setting the tone in the world political and economic system. However, nowadays the question is about European role in the global world, rather than about its leadership. Moreover, the concern for preservation of the very European civilization is widely spread in the European intellectual establishment. The task of preserving Europe as a socio-cultural phenomenon will become increasingly important during the next decades. Without a geo-strategic cooperation with Russia it faces the risk of turning into a very small and diminishing part of the world population on a small and insignificant peninsula at the top end of a huge Eurasian continent. Europe is essential for modernization of Russia, which lost a lot of blood during reforms of the 1990s. In the emerging configuration of the world-system with its growing risks, the “good neighborhood” factor becomes decisive for providing public stability, as well as for socio-economic development of neighborhood states. Integration of the EU and Russian Federation is a geopolitical imperative, originating in strictly pragmatic interests of both sides, rather than some ideal motives. In effect, EU and Russia are facing the same global challenges, answers to which depend largely on combining their available resources. For Russia, EU is not only the main economic partner, concentrating more than a half of the global trade, but also a part of the Christian civilization. The common border of EU and Russia is situated in the Baltic region. Countries in this border area, which for a long time existed as a unite state, undergo a process of socio-cultural interaction of EU and Russia. Various models of institutional interaction, as well as of spontaneous socio-cultural diffusion are studied in the article.

Norway at the Border of EU – Cross-Border Shopping and its Implications

Cross-border shopping has for many years been an issue in the political debate in Norway, and it remains so. The focus of the media is mostly on alcohol and tobacco shopping, but shopping for other goods such as meat and other groceries are at least as important. Aim The aim of this article is to present estimates of the total cross-border shopping, especially from Sweden, with a special focus on alcohol and tobacco. Data Data are collected from different sources, mainly from the two research institutes SIFO and SIRUS. Results The total private import by travelers to Norway has increased, and so has special cross-border shopping from Sweden. An obvious reason is the price differences on alcohol, tobacco and meat in particular, which have been increasing since the neighbouring countries Sweden and Finland became members of the EU in 1995. Another reason is the general increase in travelling, especially by airplanes, during later years. People living near the border are, not surprisingly, much more often border-shoppers than people living far away. Border-shopping also has an illegal side, since some people violate the quite restrictive Norwegian quotas on travelers import e.g. of alcohol and tobacco. Around 20 per cent of the of the Norwegian travellers see such “small-scale smuggling” of spirits as a serious crime, and 25 percent had brought too much alcohol. The total private import by travelers, legal as well as illegal, represents a considerable revenue loss to Norway.

Ukrainian Migration to Hungary: A Fine Balance between Migration Policies and Diaspora Politics

ABSTRACT This article focuses on the multiple registers of policies and nodal points where the migrants' strategies and migration policies encounter, miss or ignore the policy measures. Although Hungary is not a major immigration country and the majority of migrants to Hungary are not from the Ukraine, it concentrates on Ukrainian migration to Hungary in order to explore the different trajectories of migrants in the tension-ridden field of Diaspora politics and migration policies that are shaped by EU concerns of security and regulation on the border of EU and non-EU. It raises questions about the periodization of border closures and the historical legacies involved in borders of Central and Eastern Europe, where politics of ethnicity and of migration do not overlap as easily as they do in other parts of Europe.

Research into freight transport queuing at customs control posts

Abstract The changes after Lithuania joined the EU and customs union are analyzed here. For the transport flows forecast and the analysis of traffic at the border theories of multidimensional regression, correlation analysis and wholesale service flows are applied here, the statistical data is processed. According to these mathematical theories and methods a transport flow which will cross the outer border of the EU is forecasted. The method how to predict the amount of transport at a certain border is shown here. The research is performed to find out which custom links have problems. Conclusions and few suggestions how to quicken road traffic flows through Lithuanian customs are also presented in this work.

L'Allemagne et l'est européen. Le défi d'une configuration intégrative de l'Europe

Its eastern neighbors see reunified Germany as an advocate for their return to Europe, a mediator of security issues with Russia, and a necessary actor for economic prosperity. This perfectly corresponds to Germany's interests: German leaders are endeavoring to export stability eastwards (opening up NATO and the EU) in order to avoid importing instability westwards. Central European countries do not want to become the safety cordon along the eastern border of a bigger EU or NATO, since these institutions may not admit the next ring of countries to the east as members. Generally seen as the central power in Europe, Germany will always play a leading role. German leaders have the objective of, in agreement with their partners to the west, integrating eastern countries in a peaceful European order. However, Germany's pragmatic trade policy gives no evidence of an eastward drift. German foreign policy is determined by the primacy given to multilateralism. Europe's future is seen in the framework of EU-NATO institutions.