ABSTRACT
In recent years, research on border issues in Hungary and other East Central European countries has derived a great deal of impetus from the ongoing debate on "a Europe of regions". The shaping of spatial formations extend ing beyond national borders has been seen as a special case in the emer gence of a new European space (cf. e.g. Tóth, 1996). In particular, the anal ysis of the development potentials of cross-border interregional and inter local relationships has been found to be crucial due to the fact that the ma jority of border-zone problems cannot be settled on the macro-level (see Tiner, 1994).
