Resumen

CALDERON VAZQUEZ, Francisco José. Borders within Europe, border deactivation, cross-border cooperation and institutions: The Iberian Raya case. Estud. front [online]. 2017, vol.18, n.36, pp.78-101. ISSN 2395-9134.  https://doi.org/10.21670/ref.2017.36.a04.

The present paper presents an application to the case of the European cross-border cooperation policy (CBC). Specifically, the CBC carried out at the Spanish-Portuguese border is reviewed from a functional perspective. To do this, a descriptive overview of the implementation process of Portuguese-Spanish CBC is made, showing the agents and institutions that have carried it out, in particular the working communities, and the results achieved throughout the process. Understanding by results: 1) what progress or recoils have been made in the deactivation of this secular border -that is, the border effect has been eliminated-, 2) what obstacles remain outstanding and 3) what are the future challenges.

Palabras llave : EU internal borders; border deactivation; cross-border cooperation; institutions.