%0 Journal Article
%T Eastern Poland as the Borderland of the European Union
%A Tomasz Komornicki
%A Andrzej Miszczuk
%J Quaestiones Geographicae
%D 2010
%I 
%R 10.2478/v10117-010-0014-5
%X The purpose of the present paper is to characterise the socio-economic potentials of the regions situated on both sides of the Polish-Russian, Polish-Belarusian and Polish-Ukrainian boundaries (against the background of historical conditions), as well as the economic interactions taking place within these regions. The analysis, carried out in a dynamic setting, sought to identify changes that have occurred owing to the enlargement of the European Union (including those associated with the absorption of the means from the pre-accession funds and from the structural funds). The territorial reach of the analysis encompasses four Polish units of the NUTS 2 level (voivodeships, or "voivodeships"), situated directly at the present outer boundary of the European Union: Warmia-Mazuria, Podlasie, Lublin and Subcarpathia. Besides, the analysis extends to the units located just outside of the eastern border of Poland: the District of Kaliningrad of the Russian Federation, the Belarusian districts of Hrodna and Brest, as well as the Ukrainian districts of Volyn, Lviv and Zakarpattya.
%K Border regions
%K borderland
%K Eastern Poland
%K European integration
%K foreign trade
%K border traffic
%U http://versita.metapress.com/content/k801351372830208/?p=a1056078b2f649f1860b566a7168e3e3&pi=4