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Roundtable seminar: Crises and Cross-border Regions in Europe- Comparative Perspectives
Free movement within cross-border regions is central to the livelihoods of millions of people across Europe. Several recent crises related to terrorism, migration flows and, most recently, the COVID-19 pandemic have been tackled with predominantly national crisis response measures, such as border closures and lockdowns.
Although national measures are not specific to cross-border regions, it is precisely in these laboratories of free movement and EU integration that their negative impact has been most profound and visible. This roundtable seminar aims to shed light on the role and legal status of cross-border regions in the EU, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their effective functioning, and policy responses on the regional, Member State and EU level from the perspectives of three metropolitan INTERREG cross-border regions: the Öresund-Kattegat-Skagerrak, Grande Région/Großregion (Luxembourg) and FranceSwitzerland (Geneva).
Registration: by 13 June at marja-liisa [dot] oberg [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se
Programme:
08.30-09.00 Registration
09.00-09.15 Welcome address
Marja-Liisa Öberg, Lund University
09.15-10.30 ’Weaving or spinning cross-border territories? Interpreting cross-border resilience in the light of ‘smooth and striated space’
Estelle Evrard, University of Luxembourg and University College London
’Conceptualising cross-border regions in the EU legal order’
Marja-Liisa Öberg
’Public policy coordination during the COVID-19 pandemic: Preliminary findings from the Greater Copenhagen cross-border region’
Jasna Pocek, Blekinge Institute of Technology and University of Florence
10.45-11.00 Coffee
11.00-12.30 ’Emerging insights from the Öresund region on cross-border working lives during the COVID-19 pandemic’
Rhiannon Pugh, Lund University
’Cross-border commuters' resilience along the France/Switzerland border in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic: an exploratory methodological approach’
Pierre-Alexandre Beylier, Université Grenoble Alpes
’Realities, crises and challenges in a cross-border labour market: the example of the Greater Region SaarLorLux’
Isabelle Pigeron-Piroth, University of Luxembourg
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.45 Roundtable discussion: ’Towards increased resilience in cross-border regions’
14.45-15.00 Concluding remarks
Marja-Liisa Öberg and Rhiannon Pugh
The roundtable seminar is organised with the support of the Centre for European Studies at Lund University.
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Plats:
Styrelserummet, Juridicum (4th floor), Lilla Gråbrödersgatan 4-6, Lund and online (Zoom)
Kontakt:
marja-liisa [dot] oberg [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se