ABSTRACT
This essay discusses cross-border cooperation between Poland and Ukraine within the new geopolitical situation in Europe. Polish membership in the European Union and transformation of the Polish-Ukrainian border into an external border of the EU have unambiguously influenced relations and cooperation patterns within the cross-border region. Fears of new exclusionary policies and a ‘Fortress Europe’ syndrome threaten to encumber the local cross-border relationships that have developed between the two countries since 1991. In order to provide a picture of regional cooperation under these new conditions it is therefore important to analyze both the scale and the scope of these changes and the new role of different actors involved in the cross-border cooperation.
