ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the changing nature of borders in Central Europe that is here Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic, during the post-1990 process of post-communist Europeanisation or, EU-isation. Euro-regions define a group of local authorities along a border, which are expected and encouraged to engage in collaborative cross-border initiatives. The German-Polish border illustrates and closely reflects the changing nature of borderness across Eastern Europe since the end of communism. Euroregion Europa Viadrina was one of the first such areas established on former Eastern Bloc territory as a symbolic and envisaged practical way drawing on Western European experiences of overcoming borderness and divisions as move towards integrating East and West. Euregio Egrensis offers an interesting specialism in changing borderness as part of a growing integration between Eastern and Western Europe after the end of communism in 1989. The change in the nature of Eastern German external borders was particularly far-reaching as part of their way towards an intra-EU status.
