SELECTED CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION GOVERNANCE FORMS WITHIN THE EU

State borders still constitute a mental barrier in the current EU, despite joint internal market was created. However this barrier can be partly eliminated by conducting a cross-border co-operation (CBC), which can result into creation of cross-border regions. These regions create their own governance structures. The research goal is critical evaluation of contemporary forms of cross-border regions governance and a proposal of good-practices examples transfer from the Upper Rhine Valley and Greater Region into newly created Czech-Polish-Slovak European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC) TRITIA. Research outcomes state that public actors decide about the current shape of the CBC. Functional CBC governance structures are influenced by the presence of the EU funds and involve all levels of public administration, not excluding a central administration. Therefore one can recommend a widening of the co-operation scope and adding the partners representing national and euroregional levels also in the EGTC TRITIA.