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EU Legislative Interests

CESCI is interested in legislative proposals related to the following policies: - Cohesion Policy: the Cohesion Policy beyond 2027 legislative package, especially the Common Provisions Regulation and the European Territorial Cooperation Regulation; - European Territorial Cooperation and related policies and legislative proposals, e.g. legal and policy documents on Interreg programmes, the European Groupings of Territorial Cooperation and the mechanism on facilitating cross-border solutions (more generally: cross-border programming, governance and obstacle management); - policies which have direct influence on cross-border cohesion and integration, especially the legislative background of cross-border health, employment, education, transport and social policies, namely opinions and resolutions of the European Committee of the Regions and the European Economic and Social Committee, as well as opinions and draft regulations of the European Commission, the Parliament and the Council; - legislative and policy documents related to the European Union Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR); - territorial development with a special focus on cross-border functional areas and cross-border integrated planning (e.g. the policy documents of the NTCCP and the ESPON programme).

Communication Activities

Projects/Initiatives: - European Cross-Border Platform - https://cor.europa.eu/en/our-work/Pages/cross-border-cooperation.aspx - #ACCESS: Promotion of legal accessibility along the Slovak-Hungarian border (#ACCESS is a strategic project of the Interreg Hungary – Slovakia Programme) https://hu-sk.eu/en/ - Legal Accessibility (2016-2021) - https://budapest.cesci-net.eu/en/legalaccess/ - EGTC Monitor: https://egtcmonitor.cesci-net.eu/en/ - SECCo2 (2018) - https://secco2.eu/ - Crossing The Borders: Geographic and Structural Characteristics of Cross-Border Cooperation in the Danube Region (2013-2015) - https://budapest.cesci-net.eu/en/crossing-the-borders-studies/ - Further projects developed and/or implemented by CESCI: https://budapest.cesci-net.eu/en/portfolio/ Events of CESCI: - What future for the concept of Borderless Europe? International conference on the perspectives of border policies and territorial cooperation in an age of multiple crises (2025) https://research.cesci-net.eu/en/ups-cesci-tein-conference-2025/#summary - Art of Cooperation Conference (2024) https://budapest.cesci-net.eu/en/report-on-the-art-of-cooperation-conference/ - EU integration of Ukraine across borders with the help of the V4 (2023) https://budapest.cesci-net.eu/en/v4-eu-integration-of-ukraine/#events - Conference on cross-border spatial monitoring (2022) https://budapest.cesci-net.eu/en/conference-on-cross-border-spatial-monitoring/ - Legal accessibility among the Visegrad countries. Forum and conference within the framework of the Hungarian V4 Presidency (2021) https://budapest.cesci-net.eu/en/forum-and-conference-within-the-framework-of-the-hungarian-v4-presidency/ - International conference on the 10th anniversary of CESCI (2019) https://budapest.cesci-net.eu/en/cesci-10/ - The World Conference of the Association for Borderlands Studies (ABS) (2018) https://budapest.cesci-net.eu/en/abs-picnic/ - Further events organised by CESCI: https://budapest.cesci-net.eu/en/cesci-events/ Publications of CESCI: - Journal of Advanced Studies on Borders, Cooperation and Development (2024, 2025) - Overview of the EGTCs around Hungary - https://budapest.cesci-net.eu/egtc-overview/ - Snapshot of EGTC’s with Hungarian participation. Overview of the situation and performance of the EGTCs with Hungarian participation (2022) https://egtcmonitor.cesci-net.eu/en/literature/egtc-snapshot-2022/ - 15 years of the EGTCs. Lessons learnt and future perspectives https://budapest.cesci-net.eu/en/15-years-of-the-egtcs-lessons-learnt-and-future-perspectives/ - Changes in the representation of a borderscape. The case of the Mária Valéria bridge https://budapest.cesci-net.eu/en/fantom-hatar/ - Lectures on cross-border governance https://budapest.cesci-net.eu/en/leckek-a-hatar-menti-kormanyzasrol/ - Cross-Border Review. CESCI’s Yearbook (2014-2023) https://budapest.cesci-net.eu/en/cross-border-review-cescis-scientific-yearbook/ - CESCI newsletter on CBC Studies, analyses of CESCI: https://budapest.cesci-net.eu/en/portfolio/

Interests Represented

Does not represent commercial interests

Member Of

- Association of European Border Regions: http://www.aebr.eu/en/index.php - European Cross-Border Platform: https://cor.europa.eu/en/our-work/Pages/cross-border-cooperation.aspx - European Regional and Local Health Authorities: https://www.euregha.net/ - Transfrontier Euro-Institut Network (through the UPS-CESCI Research Group on CBC): https://transfrontier.eu/ - Regional Studies Association: https://www.regionalstudies.org/ - Western Balkan Network on Territorial Governance (TG-WeB): https://tg-web.eu/

Organisation Members

Members of CESCI: https://budapest.cesci-net.eu/en/about/our-members/ Arrabona ETT Bács-Kiskun Vármegye Önkormányzata Banat -Triplex Confinium ETT Békés Vármegye Önkormányzata Európa Kapu ETT Fehérgyarmat Város Önkormányzata Fertő-táj Világörökség Magyar Tanácsa Egyesület Győr Megyei Jogú Város Önkormányzata Győr-Moson-Sopron Vármegye Önkormányzata Ister-Granum EGTC Komárom - Esztergom Vármegye Önkormányzata Mátészalka Város Önkormányzata Mission Opérationnelle Transfrontalière Mórahalom Város Önkormányzata Mura Régió ETT MURABA ETT Nógrád Vármegye Önkormányzata Nyíradony Város Önkormányzata Pannon ETT Pons Danubii EGTC Pontibus EGTC Püspökladány Város Önkormányzata Rába-Duna-Vág ETT Sajó-Rima ETT Sajó-Rima Eurorégió Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg Vármegye Önkormányzata Tatabánya Megyei Jogú Város Önkormányzata Vas Vármegye Önkormányzata Zala Vármegye Önkormányzata