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The influence of the Covid-19 pandemic on Czech-Polish cross-border cooperation: From debordering to re-bordering?

2021

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic brought many changes to social behaviours in Europe. One of its major consequences was the temporary closure of borders, which was introduced as a measure to prevent the uncontrolled pandemic spreading and involved internal Schengen borders. This has had a major impact in the way in which cross-border cooperation has been conducted in Europe, including the Czech-Polish borderland, as it dramatically restrained all flows across borders. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of the pandemic on five roles of cross-border cooperation: 1) as a multi-level governance form; 2) as a regional development tool; 3) as a para-diplomacy form; 4) as a post-conflict reconcil…

Czech2019-20 coronavirus outbreakCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)COVID-19 pandemic; re-bordering; cross-border cooperation and its roles; Czech-Polish border; Poland; Czech RepublicSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)0211 other engineering and technologies0507 social and economic geography02 engineering and technologyInternational tradecross-border cooperation and its rolesczech-polish borderRegional developmentPolitical sciencePandemicGeography (General)business.industryCorporate governancecovid-19 pandemic05 social sciences021107 urban & regional planningCross-border cooperationlanguage.human_languagere-borderingpolandlanguageG1-922business050703 geographyczech republicMoravian Geographical Reports
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New re-bordering left them alone and neglected: Czech cross-border commuters in German-Czech borderland

2022

The article focuses on the impact of the new re-bordering, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, on the functional, ideational and institutional dimension of cross-border integration, as perceived by the Czech cross-border commuters employed on the German side of the Euroregion Elbe Labe. The interviews with forty cross-commuters showed that they were left alone in these times of re-bordering and became victims of non-coordination between Czechia and Germany. Yet, cross-border commuting seems to have survived the first pandemic waves and the German labour market will continue to attract the Czech workforce despite that fact the pandemic has introduced a major uncertainty associated with the bord…

Re-borderingGeography Planning and DevelopmentCOVID-19cross-border commutersCzech-German borderlandborder checksDemographyEuropean Societies
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