80 Podravina PODRAVINA Volumen 14, broj 27, Str. 80 - 87 Koprivnica 2015. MURA REGION EGTC, THE INTEGRATED BORDER REGION EGTC 1 AT THE BE MURA fORE SCHENGEN GION E mura region egtC, integraCija graniČnih regija oko mure R 1 RA Prije Provedbe SChengena U M Lóránt BALI, Ph.D. Primljeno / Received: 15. 1. 2015. senior lecturer Prihvaćeno / Accepted: 25. 5. 2015. email:
[email protected] Prethodno priopćenje University of Pannonia Georgikon Faculty Preliminary communication Hungary 8360, Keszthely Deák F. u. 16. UDK / UDC: 341.232(497.5:439) 394.9(282.24Mura) Nóra HEGEDÚSNÉ BARANYAI, Ph.D. associate professor email:
[email protected] University of Pannonia Georgikon Faculty Hungary 8360, Keszthely Deák F. u. 16. L. BALI, N. HEGEDÚSNÉ BARANYAI, A. GÓR, G. - FITOS BARANYAI, L. N. BALI, HEGEDÚSNÉ Arnold GÓR, Msc assistant lecturer email:
[email protected] University of Pannonia Georgikon Faculty Hungary 8360, Keszthely Deák F. u. 16. Gábor FITOS, Msc PhD student email:
[email protected] University of Pannonia Georgikon Faculty Hungary 8360, Keszthely Deák F. u. 16. SUMMARY With Croatia's EU accession, the process of etherialization of the Croatian-Hungarian border accelarated. One important step was the foundation of the Mura Region EGTC. The organization is made of Muramenti Nemzetiségi Területfejlesztési Társulás, Donja Dubrava, Donji Vidovec, Gorican and Donji Kraljevec. Instead of the Hungarian-Hungarian relati- ons, typical for Hungarian neighborhood politics, the Croatian- Croatian ethnic relation- ships dominate in this case. The aim of this study is to show through the example of the Hungarian Mura-side and the Croatian Muraköz (Međimurska) the qualitative transfor- mation of a previously alienated border area.