The session aims to present existing good practices and models of cross-border management of persisting legal and administrative obstacles. The speakers will present the Benelux and the Nordic models and the project “#ACCESS – Promotion of legal accessibility across the Slovak-Hungarian border” implemented by CESCI and CESCI Carpathia and co-financed by the Slovakia-Hungary Interreg VI-A programme.

Moderator: Melinda Istenes-Benczi PhD, International Relations Coordinator of CESCI

• Frans Weekers, Secretary General of the Benelux Union (tbc)
• Sandra Forsén, Senior Adviser of the Freedom of Movement Council of the Nordic Council of Ministers
• Martin Unfried, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Transnational and Euregional Cross border Cooperation and Mobility / ITEM at the Maastricht University
• Katalin Fekete, Senior Legal Adviser, CESCI