The importance of cross-border cooperation in the Balkans: Evidence from the bilateral agreement between Albania and Kosovo

This contribution presents the strategy and methodologic approach adopted to develop the territorial project for the transnational area comprised between Kukës and Prizren regions. It analyses the historic relations between the areas involved in this project in the context of the Western Balkan’s up to the recent efforts made by both countries. There are also described the policies of the future cooperation between Albania and Kosovo, in order to provide to ministerial counterparts, a tool for analysis and control of the entire trans-regional area’s development process, in order to transmit them to the future territorial and strategic planning levels.