The Problems of Implementing the Cross-Border Cooperation Projects

Abstract

The article is aimed at analyzing the national experience of implementing the cross-border cooperation projects, highlighting the main problems of underfulfillment of the cross-border cooperation projects, determining the advantages and disadvantages of projects of the cross-border cooperation through the prism of the Poland-Belarus-Ukraine Cross-Border Cooperation Program 2014–2020. The economic expediency of implementation of large infrastructure projects in terms of the program of cross-border cooperation «Poland-Belarus-Ukraine 2014–2020» in Lviv, Volyn and Zakarpatska regions is substantiated in accordance with separate socio-economic indicators. Problems of implementing the projects of cross-border cooperation are allocated, ways of their solution are recommended, and positive influence of these projects on the economy and development of the indicated regions is determined.

Keywords

• cross-border cooperation
• European Neighbourhood Instrument
• major infrastructure projects
• Poland-Belarus-Ukraine Cross-Border Cooperation Program 2014–2020