
Beyond Borders: 26th Breakfast Debate
The Border Focal Point Network (BFPN), coordinated by DG REGIO, will host the 26th Beyond Borders Breakfast Debate on 11 December 2025.
The event will focus on how cross-border cooperation strengthens spatial planning, governance, and crisis management in EU border regions. Building on the work of the Resilient Borders Initiative, the debate will showcase experiences from two cross-border pilot actions in spatial planning and crisis management, and explore how these efforts can be sustained in the future.
Speakers include:
· Hugo Sobral, Deputy Director-General, DG REGIO
· Ricardo Ferreira, Border Focal Point Coordinator, DG REGIO- Interreg, Cross-border Cooperation, Internal Borders
· Jean Peyrony, Director General of Mission Opérationnelle Transfrontalière (MOT)
· Martín Guillermo Ramírez, Secretary General of Association of European Border Regions (AEBR)
More speakers to be confirmed.