Institutional Aspects of Portugal-Spain Cross-Border Cooperation

Pablo Podadera Rivera and Francisco Calderon Vazquez

Journal of Borderlands Studies, 2018, vol. 33, issue 4, 585-604

Abstract: The Portuguese–Spanish border perfectly embodies the common characteristics of European cross-borders territories with the present time characterized by abundant initiatives of cross-border cooperation. In this paper we will analyze the institutional aspects of the cross-border cooperation on the Spanish–Portuguese border from its configurative elements: starting from the normative tools which have promoted it, up to the new institutions which have developed it; its results relating to the deactivation of the cross-border discontinuity and the minimization of inherent transaction costs due to the cross-border factor. The final conclusions of research reveal an important impact of the cross-border cooperation, of its institutions and tools in the political and administrative landscape of Portuguese–Spanish cross-border areas even though they are impregnated by excessive Community bureaucracy and with important administrative, fiscal and juridical-legal limitation.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1267588

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