RT Journal Article
T1 Cross-Border Institutional Trust in Post-Pandemic Times. The Role of EU b-solutions Initiative
A1 Medeiros, Eduardo
A1 Trillo Santamaría, Juan Manuel
A1 Guillermo Ramírez, Martín
K1 Institutional trust
K1 Eu b-solutions
K1 Institutional cooperation
K1 Cross-border cooperation
K1 Covidfencing
AB Mutual trust is an important element in starting cross-border processes, and institutional trust is vital to forging sound and effective cross-border cooperation. It is widely debated that the recent covidfencing process in Europe chipped away existing long and medium-term cross-border institutional ties, in most European borders, at least for some time. The fundamental point is that the sudden closing of national borders also revealed how important are effective and well-functioning cross-border institutions to direct the reopening of such borders into functional cross-border areas. To appreciate more in-depth the importance of cross-border institutional trust in post-pandemic times, this article analyses to what extent the EU b-solutions initiative contributes to reinforcing it along European cross-border regions. The analysis concluded that this EU initiative reinforces cross-border institutional trust by enhancing institutional capacity building, institutional knowledge sharing and stability/credibility as well as territorial integration in EU border regions. However, only a few European cross-border regions have benefited the most from this institutional support by b-solutions: the Benelux, plus Germany and France, as well as the Iberian cross-border areas.
PB Taylor and Francis
SN 2159-1229
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10347/41626
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10347/41626
LA eng
NO Medeiros, E., Trillo-Santamaría, J.M. & Guillermo-Ramírez, M. (2024): Cross-Border Institutional Trust in Post-Pandemic Times. The Role of EU b-solutions Initiative. Journal of Borderlands Studies. Published online 03 Jun 2024
NO This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Borderlands Studies on 3 June 2024, available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2024.2352431
DS Minerva
RD 24 abr 2026