Tag: Policy-making
Legal accessibility 6.
The objective of our Legal accessibility initiative is to identify the persisting legal and administrative obstacles along the Hungarian borders and to draft proposals for their elimination in order to facilitate cross-border cooperation and lighten everyday life of border people ...
Legal accessibility among the V4 countries
The objective of our Legal accessibility initiative is to identify the persisting legal and administrative obstacles along the Hungarian borders and to draft proposals for their elimination in order to facilitate cross-border cooperation and lighten everyday life of border people ...
European Cross-Border Platform – Annual meeting 2026
The closing conference of the BorderLabs CE project, titled “Towards a Central European Territorial Agenda?”, will take place in Brussels on 10 June 2026 as a side event of the annual European Cross-Border Platform (ECBP) meeting. Supported by Interreg Central ...
The results of the CROSSGOV ESPON project have been published
A noteworthy milestone in the life of CESCI is that our first significant partnership participation in a project implemented within the framework of an ESPON programme has been successfully completed. The aim of the CROSSGOV project is to develop a ...
Pálfi István EGTC 20 Memorial Conference
On March 5, 2026, a memorial conference was held in Budapest focusing on one of the most important legacies of István Pálfi’s work: the role and operation of EGTCs (European Groupings of Territorial Cooperation). The event was organized through the ...
Report on the third Art of Cooperation conference
The third edition of the Art of Cooperation Conference took place in Budapest on 2-3 December 2025. The event organised by the Széchenyi Programme Office (SZPO) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary brought together more than ...
Meeting with the Cross-Border Regional Observatories
The Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Commission’s science and knowledge service organised a Meeting with Cross-Border Regional Observatories. The event took place in Brussels from the 27th and 28th November of 2025 ...
New map presenting the cross-border regions according to the amended Schengen Borders Code is out
In compliance with the amended Schengen Borders Code (Regulation (EU) 2024/1717, Art 42b), the Member States of the Schengen Area had to identify cross-border regions by 11 January 2025 and inform the European Commission accordingly ...
Visual information materials have been produced on the functioning of the BRIDGEforEU Regulation
As a result of a decade of negotiations, on May 6, 2025, the European Parliament adopted a new regulation on the instrument for the development and growth of border regions, called “BRIDGEforEU,” which entered into force on June 8, 2025 ...
Beyond EGTC, beyond Interreg. The annual meeting of the European Cross-Border Platform
The European Cross-Border Platform (ECBP) held its annual meeting in Gorizia on 13 and 14 November 2025. The first event of the new platform, launched in Budapest last year at the “Art of Cooperation” Council Presidency event, looked back at ...
