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Beyond Borders: 26th Breakfast Debate

By Knowledge Network – Staff member

The Border Focal Point Network (BFPN), coordinated by DG REGIO, will host the 26th Beyond Borders Breakfast Debate on 11 December 2025.

Webinar

Key information

Date(s)
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Attendance type
Online

Description

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.