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During the past decade the European Union has faced many challenges and crises. From an economic crisis we have moved to a migration and refugee crises, terrorist attacks, security and institutional discussions and finally the vote in the UK for Brexit. Reforms of the European Union seem necessary. What will be emphasised? Further cooperation across borders or closing of borders? Mobility versus security?

In 2016, 25 years after the negotiations about the European citizenship and a borderless Europe took place in Maastricht, the border within and outside the European Union still plays an important role. How can a free movement of persons, goods, services and capital be maintained if the political and humanitarian crisis is closing borders? How will particularly the border regions of the old Member States, where it is impossible to imagine life without free movement of persons, goods, services and capital, deal with the situation? How free is the cross-border citizen from a border region really when he wants to (go) work just over the national border at less than 10 kilometres of his home? ITEM investigates cross-border cooperation and mobility. Particularly now!