CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION AND THE EUROPEANIZATION OF THE SLOVENIANHUNGARIAN BORDER REGIONČEZMEJNO SODELOVANJE IN EVROPEIZACIJA SLOVENSKOMADŽARSKEGA OBMEJNEGA OBMOČJA

Abstract

This paper will examine how EU integration processes inform developments in the border region between Slovenia and Hungary by focusing on EU funding as an instrument of cross-border integration. Ethnographic interviews serve as a means for ascertaining how actors in the border region experience these EU funding initiatives, what sorts of changes these projects introduce, what sorts of networks they facilitate, and how they inform borderland experience and development. *** Na podlagi analize projektov Evropske unije (EU) kot instrumentov cezmejnega povezovanja avtorica preucuje vplive procesov evropske integracije na dogajanja na obmejnem obmocju med Slovenijo in Madžarsko. Z etnografskimi intervjuji ugotavlja, kako akterji v obmejni regiji doživljajo te programe EU, kaksne spremembe uvajajo ti projekti, kaksne socialne mreže omogocajo in kako vplivajo na obmejne izkusnje ter razvoj obmejnega obmocja.