Reducing border barriers for cross-border commuters in Europe via the EU b-solutions initiative

Eduardo Medeiros, Martín Guillermo Ramírez, Giulia Brustia, Anna Cinzia Dellagiacoma and Caitriona A. Mullan

European Planning Studies, 2023, vol. 31, issue 4, 822-841

Abstract: For more than six decades, the European Union (EU) has promoted, one way or the other, systematic European territorial integration, understood as the process of reducing many kinds of cross-border barriers. This article debates the role of the EU b-solutions initiative in facilitating cross-border commuting in Europe via its contribution to a body of knowledge, which, in its practical application, has the potential to act as a resource to be drawn on in the mitigation of a wide range of legal-administrative barriers. A theoretical framework for relating cross-border commuting and cross-border barriers is set out, and existing cases from the b-solutions initiative are mapped against it. The authors demonstrate the framework’s value as a tool for determining the relevance of cross-border obstacles and solution factors for the issue of cross-border commuting. The paper concludes that the EU b-solutions contributed with concrete policy actions as well as a body of knowledge and solution-orientated planning towards reducing a range of legal-administrative cross-border barriers in Europe, and therefore represents a set of lebenswelt interventions contributing to the potential for increasing cross-border commuting flows.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2022.2093606

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