Analysis of the impacts of the border-related measures on cross-border territories and communities

AuthorRubio, Jean; Peyrony, Jean; Viaggi, Raffaele
Pages54-109
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II. CHAPTER 2:
ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACTS OF THE BORDER-
RELATED MEASURES ON CROSS-BORDER
TERRITORIES AND COMMUNITIES
A. Introduction and methodology
The objective of this chapter is to outline and analyse in-depth the immediate
impact of border-related measures on cross-border communities, illustrating these
effects with a variety of example from different EU border regions.
More specifically, this chapter investigates the impact of these measures on six
domains:
To successfully lead this assignment, 21 interviews corresponding to 20 EU borders
were conducted between mid-July and August 2020. The list of interviewees can
be found in the table below.
While selecting interviewees, different criteria were taken into account:
Borders where diverging strategies to tackle the pandemic at national level
had been taken (e.g. DK-SE)
Border region where the pandemic hit hardest on one side than on the other,
provoking hospital beds saturation (e.g. FR-DE)
Borders around Northern Italy, epicentre of the pandemic in Europe, where
neighbouring countries where the first to react (e.g. IT-CH; IT-AT; etc.)
A diversity of stakeholders, corresponding not only to CB structures, but
also transport companies, small border municipalities, emergency services,
info points, etc.
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N.
Border
Interviewee
Structure
1
CZ-AT
Siegfried Weinert
Austrian Red Cross
2
IE-UK
Anthony Soares
Centre for Cross-border studies
3
AT-IT
Matthias Fink
EGTC Euroregion Tyrol-South Tyrol-
Trentino
4
IT-SI
Ivan Curzolo
EGTC GO
5
FR-ES
Arola Urdangarin
EGTC NAEN
6
BE-NL
Stuey Hamelink
Euregio Scheldemond
7
CZ-DE
Ruediger Kubsch
Euroregion Elbe-Labe
8
ES-PT
Xosé Lago
Euroregion Galicia-Norte de Portugal
9
DE-PL
Carsten Jacob
Euroregion Spree-Neiße-Bober
10
HU-RO
Tünde Kresz
Gate to Europe EGTC
11
NL-DE
Sonja Adamsky ; Linda Blom
GrenzInfoPunkt EUREGIO
12
HU-AT
Szilárd Kövesdi
GYESEVE director
13
RO-BG
Bogdan Musat
Joint Secretariat RoBg/ CBC
(Calarasi, RO)
14
HU-SK
Vince Kis
Mayor of Rajka
15
HU
Ferenc Horváth
MMÖNK president
16
HR-HU
Dr. Ágota Nagyné
Mura Régió EGTC
17
SI-HU
Bálint Papp
Muraba EGTC
18
DK-SE
Sandra Forsén
ÖresundDirekt
19
IT-CH
Francesco Quattrini
Regio Insubrica
20
DE-DK
Peter Hansen
Region Sønderjylland-Schleswig
21
PL-CZ-
DE
Hynek Böhm
Technical University of Liberec (CZ)
Additionally, regarding the case-studies along the French borders, the report is
based on the paper published by MOT in June 2020, entitled "La crise du Covid-19
aux frontières françaises". This analysis is the result of a call for experiences issued
to all of its members. More than 20 members of the MOT’s network have voluntarily
contributed by responding to a very detailed questionnaire.
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1. Mapping of the cross-border case studies covered within this assignment
CONTEXT OF THE ASSIGNMENT
This report was written during August 2020, in a time when the coronavirus -
despite a lower incidence compared to the spring- was still active in Europe. It is
hard to predict if new border closures will occur in the weeks or months to come
as a consequence of a possible ‘second wave’. However, a first sign was sent by
Hungary on August 28th,

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