Twin Cities: Frankfurt (Oder) - Slubice

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2006 in the subject Business economics - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,7, Helsinki School of Economics, course: Business Strategies and East-West Cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region, language: English, abstract: A short introduction to Frankfurt (Oder) and SlubiceFrankfurt (Oder) in Germany and Slubice in Poland are two towns with 64,000 and 17,000 inhabitants. They are located directly at the eastern border of Germany and western border of Poland and they are connected by three bridges over the river Oder. One is for trains, one for a highway and the last one for pedestrians. It takes just 10 minutes by foot to go from one city-center to the other. The cities are closely related to each other. That is the case because in history they haven t been two separate cities at all. The distinction and separation in two separate units just happened after World War II (i.e. 1945) because it was decided that the river Oder is the border between Germany and Poland.[...]