From competition to cross border cooperation

Abstract

The research goal is to present the importance of cross-border cooperation in 21st century Europe. Highlighting the fact that cross-border cooperation has become one of the objectives of EU cohesion policy in the periode between 2007-2013. To see the benefits of cross border cooperation we introduced in this paper a case study. I present Romania – Bulgaria Cross Border Cooperation Programme: purpose, objectives and expected results and I try to emphasize that the cooperation cross border objectiv has a very important role in administrative convergence and legislation approximation in EU. Research methods used were comparative analysis, historical and analytical method for collecting data needed for research from documents prepared by the European Commission (reports, guides, reviews).