History of the Euroregion
A bridge for countries outside the EU
The Carpathian Euroregion was established on February 14, 1993, when in Debrecen, representatives of the regional authorities of the border areas of Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Ukraine signed an agreement to establish the Interregional Union of the Carpathian Euroregion.
At that time, the cooperation within the Euroregion, which was established precisely for the purpose of its initiation and development, proceeded at a different pace and with different results. This phenomenon was accompanied by political, economic, administrative, awareness and personal changes. However, the proof that all the national sides of the Carpathian Euroregion (ie Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine, Hungary, Romania) express their will to cooperate is precisely the fact that the Euroregion, despite many problems, continues to function, still creating new platforms for common understanding.
Currently, the area of the Euroregion covers approximately 154,000 km2, and is inhabited by over 15 million people. Part of the Carpathian Euroregion is located on the eastern border of Poland, which is the external border of the European Union. Therefore, taking into account the role that the Euroregion plays, it can be stated that in the near future it will be all the more significant as since Poland's accession to the European Union we have become a bridge for the countries that will remain outside its borders.
The basic feature of the Carpathian Euroregion for many years of its operation was the lack of legal personality of both the Union as a whole and its individual National Parties. The definition of the Carpathian Euroregion falls therefore in political categories, although the Union's Statute defines its territorial scope and describes its organizational structure.
