European perspective

The present report’s objective is the presentation and comparison of the Council of Europe’s and the European Union’s instruments of cross-border co-operation. The first two chapters outline the characteristics of the instruments of cross-border co-operation employed by the two institutions and focus on particular programmes. While, the final part is devoted to the comparison of the mechanisms used by the two institutions in the field of transfrontier co-operation, with particular emphasis put on the presentation of similarities and differences between them.