New economic and cultural biases of strategic development in Lithuanian-Polish cross-border functional area under the impact of pandemic and migrations

ENThe concepts of functional region and functional area are under the implementation in the regional policy of Lithuania and Poland. This is considered as a new narrative of territorial cooperation with clearly assigned functions, but with limited geographic space of interaction on the both sides of borderlands. Cultural heritage values are the most important factors from which the image of tourism in the cross-border functional area must be created as a concept for communication of Lithuanian and Polish cultures. Global uncertainties affected the vulnerable social, cultural and economic ecosystems in both borderlands. Due to the impact of pandemic, traffic circulation and human migrations at the border crossings were reduced. The economic and social activities started to stagnate keeping minimal functions on cross-border exchanges. An agreement on common values and identities is a focal strategic point for perspective functioning of cross-border functional area. [From the publication]