Cross-border localities
Local employment development in cross-border localities
The creation of the Single European Market, the accession of New Member States and improvements in transport infrastructure remove barriers to mobility as well as increasing the opportunities for cross-border trade and investment—ultimately creating new employment opportunities. These developments create new potential and opportunities for employment development as well as creating new risks and threats. Cross-border localities are those most likely to face such opportunities, risks and threats. European policy and programmes have provided support to cross-border localities to enable them to exploit the new potential and opportunities, as well as countering any threats. These have included INTERREG, Phare, TEPs and EURES amongst others. Elements of these programmes (as well as national and regional ones) have initiated and/or supported local partnership activity to develop employment. Other activity has been initiated by local actors themselves.
The purpose of this theme was to identify and validate the lessons learned from such activity and to consider the context in which examples of good practice are successful.
