<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The purpose of the present paper is to characterise the socio-economic potentials of the regions situated on both sides of the Polish-Russian, Polish-Belarusian and Polish-Ukrainian boundaries (against the background of historical conditions), as well as the economic interactions taking place within these regions. The analysis, carried out in a dynamic setting, sought to identify changes that have occurred owing to the enlargement of the European Union (including those associated with the absorption of the means from the pre-accession funds and from the structural funds). The territorial reach of the analysis encompasses four Polish units of the NUTS 2 level (voivodeships, or "voivodeships"), situated directly at the present outer boundary of the European Union: Warmia-Mazuria, Podlasie, Lublin and Subcarpathia. Besides, the analysis extends to the units located just outside of the eastern border of Poland: the District of Kaliningrad of the Russian Federation, the Belarusian districts of Hrodna and Brest, as well as the Ukrainian districts of Volyn, Lviv and Zakarpattya.</p></abstract>

The purpose of the present paper is to characterise the socio-economic potentials of the regions situated on both sides of the Polish-Russian, Polish-Belarusian and Polish-Ukrainian boundaries (against the background of historical conditions), as well as the economic interactions taking place within these regions. The analysis, carried out in a dynamic setting, sought to identify changes that have occurred owing to the enlargement of the European Union (including those associated with the absorption of the means from the pre-accession funds and from the structural funds). The territorial reach of the analysis encompasses four Polish units of the NUTS 2 level (voivodeships, or "voivodeships"), situated directly at the present outer boundary of the European Union: Warmia-Mazuria, Podlasie, Lublin and Subcarpathia. Besides, the analysis extends to the units located just outside of the eastern border of Poland: the District of Kaliningrad of the Russian Federation, the Belarusian districts of Hrodna and Brest, as well as the Ukrainian districts of Volyn, Lviv and Zakarpattya.

Eastern Poland as the Borderland of the European Union

Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Centre for European Regional and Local Studies EUROREG, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

Quaestiones Geographicae

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The purpose of the present paper is to characterise the socio-economic potentials of the regions situated on both sides of the Polish-Russian,...

Eastern Poland as the Borderland of the European Union

Published Online: Jun 25, 2010

Page range: 55 - 69

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10117-010-0014-5

Keywords
Border regions, borderland, Eastern Poland, European integration, foreign trade, border traffic

This content is open access.

Eastern Poland as the Borderland of the European Union

Published Online: Jun 25, 2010

Page range: 55 - 69

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10117-010-0014-5

KeywordsBorder regions, borderland, Eastern Poland, European integration, foreign trade, border traffic

This content is open access.

Keywords
Border regions, borderland, Eastern Poland, European integration, foreign trade, border traffic