Cross-border and EU legal issues: Hungary – Croatia

Each EU candidate, including Croatia, has to prove to have created an adequate legal environment for the prerequisites of cross border cooperation. It is obviously true that the cross border phenomenon in itself means much more that is realized in the framework of the supranational organization called European Union. The Pécs Law School and the Strossmayer University have found it inevitable to establish common research and student exchange program even before Hungary joined the EU. This cooperation has not ended after 2004, or after the first decade of this century. It has become even more strengthened as we realized that especially in the legal education and research we can widen our horizons, share our theoretical knowledge and empirical experiences about accession and its effect to our legal system, legal theory and practice in all branches of law. These can be considered backgrounds to the co-operation between the law schools of Pécs and Osijek in the framework of Establishing UNIversity Cooperation Osijek – Pécs project (EUNICOP; HUHR/0901/2.2.1/0013). EUNICOP is a one-year long common research and curriculum development project that is cofinanced and supported by the European Union through the Hungary - Croatia IPA Cross-border Co-operation Programme and by the two participating law faculties. The EUNICOP project is operated in various
interrelated areas and through various activities. One of these activities was the conference “Cross-border and EU legal issues: Hungary – Croatia”, organized by the Faculty of Law, University of Pécs on 16-18 September 2010. The conference, where knowledge gained during the joint research activities was shared, successfully brought together researchers and various fields of law were dealt with.