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Cross-Border Development in the Vienna/Bratislava Region: A Review

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Sustainable Development for Central and Eastern Europe

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The economic and political changes in central and eastern Europe underway since the late 1980s have fundamentally changed the European landscape and the framework for economic activity in major parts of the continent. At a time when the European Union was moving towards a higher level of integration and aiming for a free flow of labour, investment, and goods, the opening of the former Eastern Bloc provided new and additional opportunities whilst posing new challenges.

An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 36th European Congress of the Regional Science Association, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, 26–30 August 1996.

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Altzinger, W., Maier, G., Fidrmuc, J. (1998). Cross-Border Development in the Vienna/Bratislava Region: A Review. In: Graute, U. (eds) Sustainable Development for Central and Eastern Europe. Central and Eastern European Development Studies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72048-2_7

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