New UniGR-CBS Policy Paper – Resilience in European Cross-Border Relations

The Covid pandemic has shown after spring 2020 how fragile cross-border relations and cooperation can be. Poor cross-border communications and inadequate foresight as to their effects exacerbated the problems – old and new – caused by re-erecting long disused checkpoints and closing borders. In the present time of polycrisis it is more than ever important to review the Covid era and to analyze the nature and timescale of resilience in cross-border cooperation.

In this new tri-lingual UniGR-CBS Policy Paper based on empirical surveys funded by the German-Polish Science Foundation, the four authors outline several development perspectives for the Franco-German and German-Polish borderlands. Differentiating among resilience factors according to their capacity for resistance, adaptation, and transformation, practical recommendations are given for enhancing crisis management in both regions.
 

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Dittel, J., Opiłowska, E., Weber, F. et Zawadzka, S. (2024): Résilience de la coopération transfrontalière en Europe – Recommandations d’action pour les régions frontalières germano-polonaises et franco-allemandes | Resilienz grenzüberschreitender Kooperation in Europa – Handlungsempfehlungen für deutsch-polnische und deutsch-französische Grenzräume | Rezyliencja współpracy transgranicznej w Europie – Rekomendacje dla polsko-niemieckiego i francusko-niemieckiego pogranicza. UniGR-CBS Policy Paper Vol. 5. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.11083278
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Julia Dittel (Saarland University, UniGR-CBS)
Elzbieta Opiłowska (University of Wrocław)
Florian Weber (Saarland University, UniGR-CBS)
Sylwia Zawadzka (University of Wrocław)