Borders within Europe, border deactivation, cross-border cooperation and institutions: The Iberian Raya case

The present paper presents an application to the case of the European cross-border cooperation policy (CBC). Specifically, the CBC carried out at the Spanish-Portuguese border is reviewed from a functional perspective. To do this, a descriptive overview of the implementation process of Port...

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Main Author: Calderón Vázquez, Francisco José
Format: Online
Language:spa
eng
Published: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California 2017
Online Access:https://ref.uabc.mx/ojs/index.php/ref/article/view/607
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Summary:The present paper presents an application to the case of the European cross-border cooperation policy (CBC). Specifically, the CBC carried out at the Spanish-Portuguese border is reviewed from a functional perspective. To do this, a descriptive overview of the implementation process of Portuguese-Spanish CBC is made, showing the agents and institutions that have carried it out, in particular the working communities, and the results achieved throughout the process. Understanding by results: 1) what progress or recoils have been made in the deactivation of this secular border —that is, the border effect has been eliminated—, 2) what obstacles remain outstanding and 3) what are the future challenges.