Borders and Border Spaces in the EU Volume 1

How to manage borders in European border regions before and after the COVID-19
pandemic? This Cahier Fare n°24 presents the results of the Jean Monnet
Network “Frontières en mouvement: quels modèles pour l’UE (FRONTEM)?”, which
was supported by the EU’s Erasmus+ program for the period between 2019-2023.
The network exchanged knowledge and practices on five different models of EU
border management: the border between France and Germany, the border between
France and Belgium, the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, the
border between Rumania and Hungary and the border between Denmark and Germany.
By analysing the results of research seminars and focus groups organised in
each of the 5 border regions concerned, it critically examines best practice
management models of cross-border integration, of minority management and of
peace facilitation. The key question addressed by the network was to assess
the role of the border in the process of European integration when faced with
processes of re-bordering and the re-questioning of the model of a “Europe
without borders”.