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Toward More Solidarity: The Future of Cross-Border Crisis Management in Europe

14 February 2022, online

Organised by the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), DynamE (Université de Strasbourg), the French Embassy in Belgium, Institut français des Pays-Bas, and ITEM (Maastricht University).

The regions at the Franco-German, Dutch-Belgian, and Dutch-German borders had long been regarded as well integrated. Yet in spring 2020, these and other national borders were suddenly closed and various other restrictions put in place to limit the spread of the coronavirus – often without any coordination with the neighboring country. Cross-border regions discovered that these measures affected them dramatically and in a disproportionate way. Indeed, even before the outbreak of the pandemic, many border regions were struggling with a plethora of obstacles.

https://dgap.org/en/events/toward-more-solidarity

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