Eastern Poland as the borderland of the European Union
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2010
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Wydział Nauk Geograficznych i Geologicznych Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza
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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, 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.
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border regions, borderland, Eastern Poland, European integration, foreign trade, border traffic
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Quaestiones Geographicae vol. 29 (2), 2010, pp.55-69
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978-83-62662-62-3