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This book suggests that Europeans need to treat both territorial and symbolic borders as specific cultural forms which enable to develop and exercise cross border cooperation (CBC) and integration. Such CBC should allow for a better understanding of differences rather than re-embedding them or constructing others. The concept of active border also provided a theoretical background for our empirical research, of which results are presented in this book. The research focused on CBC and was conducted in two triangle Euroregions: Nisa (Neisse, Nysa) and Šumava (Bayerischer Wald, Unterer Inn/Muhlviertel). We combined the qualitative and quantitative methods. Between April and October 2017, we summoned answers from 79 mayors or mayoresses to our questionnaire. As for qualitative methods, during 2018 and 2019 we conducted 52 semi-structured interviews with various agents of CBC. Both interviews and the questionnaire aimed at all national sides of two respective Euroregions, i.e. apart from the Czech parts we also gathered data form Austria, Bavaria, Poland, and Saxony.