cover image: Proposal for an ESPON 2030 Programme Thematic Action Plan (TAP) on - ‘Living, working and travelling across borders’

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Proposal for an ESPON 2030 Programme Thematic Action Plan (TAP) on - ‘Living, working and travelling across borders’

20 Jan 2023

Additionally, the TAP will address the integrated territorial development of the four EU macro-regions: the Baltic Sea Region, the Danube region, the Adriatic/Ionian Region and the Alpine Region.4 Among others, this TAP: 1 2 As highlighted in the COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL AND THE. [...] The challenges, trends and drivers behind For the for the last 25 years, the European Union has been investing in cross-border cooperation through Interreg6, ‘enhancing the cooperation process with a view to strengthening the overall harmonious development of the Union’, as the Commission has a major role in this process by proposing legislation or funding mechanisms or by supporting Member States. [...] While, the long-term effects of the pandemic or of the war are still to be assessed, some of the impacts are already heavily felt by the people living and working in cross-border areas. [...] The lives of the over 2 million cross-border employed commuters, have been heavily disrupted in the past 2 years and the changes in the labour laws (like the one on teleworking) have had direct impacts, overly experienced in some of the cross-border regions that are highly-dependent on the commuting workforce. [...] On a day-to-day basis, cross-border mobility - workflows and exchanges - have a positive aspect for the local economic development, and sustaining a diverse economic structure of these territories and providing the necessary transport and communication networks, ensuring distribution from the main gateways and corridors towards the inland, are of the outmost importance.

Authors

Andreea China

Pages
6
Published in
Luxembourg