Regio Waves is the podcast series, produced by the European Commission, investigating the policies that provide local solutions to European and global issues. Regio waves explores the many sides of the EU Cohesion Policy, one of the most, concrete and flexible policy in the EU. Guided by journalists and through the words of experts and officials, Regio Waves sheds light on the EU’s big challenges, from economic disparity, through green and digital transition to the Covid, refugee and energy crises.

Think of the outlines of your country on the map in your classroom: where does a country end? What’s beyond those outlines? In this episode of Regio Waves, Ricardo Ferreira and Maja Radovanovic invite us to travel to border regions within the EU. How’s the life of the citizens of border regions? Legal, administrative, infrastructural obstacles make the internal borders of the EU still a very much real issue for people living and working close to a border. Learn about Interreg, the policy that removes these obstacles and pushes the boundaries of cooperation. European integration in a nutshell.

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