TY - ECHAP
AU - Łukasz Wróblewski
AB - The Polish-German borderland provides a test of whether territorial cooperation follows actual economic linkages or merely geographical proximity. The chapter combines literature and legal-document reviews with Eurostat GDP data for NUTS3 border regions from 2000 to 2020. Cyclical fluctuations are extracted with the Hodrick–Prescott filter and compared through Pearson correlations. Although local governments frequently cooperate with directly adjacent partners, business-cycle convergence between neighbouring Polish and German border regions is rare and usually weak. Some correlations appear between territories that do not share a border, while several commonly cited cross-border links show little economic synchronisation. The chapter challenges border-centred thinking in cooperation policy. More effective projects require evidence on real socio-economic interdependencies, not only administrative adjacency or historical partnership patterns.
BT - Resilient and transforming Europe
DA - 01/10/2026
DO - 10.18559/978-83-8211-309-9/8
N2 - The Polish-German borderland provides a test of whether territorial cooperation follows actual economic linkages or merely geographical proximity. The chapter combines literature and legal-document reviews with Eurostat GDP data for NUTS3 border regions from 2000 to 2020. Cyclical fluctuations are extracted with the Hodrick–Prescott filter and compared through Pearson correlations. Although local governments frequently cooperate with directly adjacent partners, business-cycle convergence between neighbouring Polish and German border regions is rare and usually weak. Some correlations appear between territories that do not share a border, while several commonly cited cross-border links show little economic synchronisation. The chapter challenges border-centred thinking in cooperation policy. More effective projects require evidence on real socio-economic interdependencies, not only administrative adjacency or historical partnership patterns.
PB - Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego w Poznaniu
PY - 2026
SN - 9788382113099
SP - 137
EP - 147
T2 - Resilient and transforming Europe
TI - Cross-border cooperation in the EU in light of economic fluctuations: The case of the Polish-German borderland
UR - https://doi.org/10.18559/978-83-8211-309-9/8
ER -