The book tackles the theme of intercultural dialogue, ethnicity and confession through the lens of minority-majority relations, and also the mechanism for managing inter-ethnic and inter-confessional relations at the Eastern border of the EU. The selection of the conference works was done taking...

The Cross-Border Cooperation component of the European Territorial Cooperation Objective, realized through operational programs that aim the internal borders of the European Union, encourage the entrepreneurship and supports the developing of collaboration, capacity and joint use of...

The Bihor and Hajdú-Bihar counties, from both sides of the Romanian – Hungarian border, are, in different degrees, monocentric administrative units, as it is shown in this paper. Each one has an administrative centre that is demographically and economically dominant. They were important urban...

The present volume of studies and analyses, the second one in a series dedicated to investigating regional development at the borders of the European Union does not claim to be exhaustive. The chief purpose of its two sections is to improve approaches to regional development through new levels...

Borders can have a positive impact upon the economic activity of a region. The reduction of the barrier effect, as achieved in the European Union, has led to a diminution in non-homogeneities in the areas situated on different sides, as well to a decrease in discontinuity as regards the flows of...

Regions have very different economic performances (among themselves) compared to states,induced by a number of determinants, such as: geography, demography, degree of specialization, economic productivity, physical and human capital, infrastructure, capacity for innovation. In this context, some...

The implementation of common policies established by the constitutive agreements of the Euroregions, and operational development of cross-border cooperation have led to the increase of contacts between Romanian and Ukrainian institutions. The European territorial cooperation at the European...

The approach of the European Union external border has been made on the one hand through an analysis of the concepts of external border from the point of view of official documents and the concepts introduced by authors and specialists in the field; on the other hand, it has been made through an...

The volume From Periphery to Centre. The Image of Europe at the Eastern Border of Europe gathers the papers presented at the international symposium of the same name held in Oradea, Romania, on June 4-8, 2013. The studies aim to uncover distances between centre and periphery and their common...

Ethnicity and religious confession are concepts around which discussion and controversy arise, generating emotions and feelings of extreme intensity. Each of us belongs to such communities. By default, there is a strong pressure on us to be subjective. Intercultural dialogue can be successfully...