Partnerstwa społeczności lokalnych Polski i Niemiec w warunkach Unii Europejskiej

The topic of the paper concerns partnerships of local communities of Poland and Germany in terms of the EU referring to specific examples. Briefly, a number of determinants that contributes to the intensification of bilateral cooperation has been identified. Moreover, the role of local partnerships in the EU terms was explained. Research questions that have been posed are: firstly, how the concept of the local community should be understood taking into consideration the context of relations between Poland and Germany and their EU membership? Secondly, what are the levels of international cooperation of the local partners? Thirdly, what are the key determinants affecting the intensifi cation of cooperation between Polish and German communities at the local level? In order to answer these questions case studies of selected partnerships concluded by the Polish and German local communities were provided.