This publication, after the tragic event in the first week of October 2013, when a boat sank on the Italian island of Lampedusa, proposes to examine the question of EU border controls from the perspectives of the new and old technologies, based...

This report, published by the Organization for cooperation and economic development, focuses on three fundamental issues concerning the support to innovation policy in cross-border regions: why and when it makes sense cross-border collaboration...

The accession of Bulgaria to the EU on 1 January 2007 assigned the country the responsibility of guarding 1647 km of the external borders of the Union. The key to success in the fulfilment of such objective is efficiency and effectiveness of the...

The Spanish-Portuguese border, the oldest and most extensive of the European Union with its 1.200 km, was characterized, when they began to develop the first programmes of cooperation in the heat of the INTERREG Community initiative, have low...

“Panorama of EU-projects – South of the Mediterranean, regional programmes 2012 – 2014′ contains information on all regional projects funded in the southern European neighborhood.” The publication is available in...

EU programme which seeks to increase public awareness regarding the European Union and its relationship with countries in the neighbourhood. In particular it aims to improve the knowledge of the European neighbourhood policy and the EU’s...