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CESCI – RE-WORDING THE BORDERS
The Central European Service for Cross-Border Initiatives (CESCI) is a private-law association established in 2009 following the model of the French Mission Opérationnelle Transfrontalière (MOT) with the mission of decreasing the separating effects of the borders and promoting cross-border cooperation in Central Europe.
WHY DO WE NEED AN ORGANISATION LIKE CESCI?
At the turn of the Millennium, the collapse of the Eastern Bloc and the progress of the European integration generated the overall expectation that we were heading to the age of „borderless Europe” and „the borderless World”. Reality has not met all these expectations: today, we rather talk about the tools lessening the separating effects of the borders.
Administrative borders still in many fields make difficult the everyday life of border citizens, the cross-border cooperation, the flow of goods and the mobility of the people – even in those regions where the physical barriers have already been removed. Let us mention but a few examples on the significance of these issues:
HEALTH
in urgent and life-threatening cases it is really important, whether the ambulance can take the patient to a cross-border hospital within a distance of 5 km or needs to carry him/her to a hospital 50 km away, without crossing the borders,
WORKING
if someone wants to work abroad, it is a common practice that the administrative tasks arising from moving include the need to nationalise the documents of qualification – but this cannot be avoided even if the better job opportunity is available by daily commuting in a city on the other side of the border,
TRANSPORT
in the case of an international bus line, the vehicle cannot stop everywhere, and the compliance and control of the different technical regulations of the countries make the travel arrangement more complicated – and this not only applies to services of long distance but also to those lines that carry people to school and work on a daily basis between two neighbouring settlements, which are located on different sides of the border,
MARRIAGE
in the case of people, who are not of the same nationality, the administrative tasks for marriage may require substantially more steps, similarly to the register of birth for children, born in such a marriage,
BUYING PROPERTY
different rules apply to the purchase of immovable properties on the other side of the border,
INFRASTRUCTURE
the construction of a cross-border bridge, or road, as well as the establishment of a ferry connection are also complex processes, which need to be planned and executed with respecting several (not only technical) aspects,
TOURISM
ensuring the financing and sustainability of the cooperation of two tourist attractions on the different sides of the border is a complex process.
Our association deals with the exploration and resolution of such problems what is a very complex set of duties that can be classified under six fields of activities.
