In the past decades, subnational cooperation between municipalities and regions has become more common all over the world. In Europe and its neighborhood this tendency has been especially visible, much due to policy advocacy and technical assistance by regional intergovernmental organizations such as the Council of Europe, the European Union and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. This development accelerated in the 1990s in tandem with the transition and democratization processes that started after the fall of the Soviet Union. However, in many places democratization has stopped or started to reverse, leading to backsliding away from democracy. While democracy as always been different in crossborder regions due to the special status of their governance arrangements, this new development accentuates a need for new tools to understand the implications of various threats to democracy for the future of crossborder cooperation. This Perspective article provides an over
Galicia and Northern Portugal start simplifying the movement of cross border workers
The European Grouping Galicia and Northern Portugal (GNP-ECT) started the B-Solutions project promoted by the European Commission and the Association of European Border Regions (AEBR) to simplify the movement of cross-border workers
In a statement sent to Lusa news agency, the Galicia-North Portugal EGTC said that the vice-president of the North Regional Coordination and Development Commission (CCDR-N), Beraldino Pinto, participated in the first meeting of the new project which was assigned to the legal expert Miguel Guimarães. The expert met with all entities and workers belonging to the project in order to gather more information about the problem and move forward in the search for a possible solution, the note specifies.