About Celbet.eu

Celbet.eu is an editorial site about the European Union's eastern and south-eastern land border as a place: the line that runs from Lapland to the Aegean, the rivers and forests it follows, the crossings that open it and the regions it shapes.

What this site covers

The crossing points section walks the frontier from north to south, crossing by crossing. Along the border covers the borderlands - twin towns, transshipment yards, forests and deltas. Visiting the frontier is the practical field guide for travellers. One article steps behind the line: the customs piece, which explains the cooperation machinery that moves goods across the frontier.

Sources and method

Articles are compiled from public geographic and institutional documentation, official material of the European Commission and the states along the border, and the published record of cross-border cooperation in the region. Where the site describes past initiatives, it describes them in the third person and in their historical context. Corrections are folded into articles as they are identified.

Who writes this site

The dispatches are written by Marek Lind, a travel writer and mapmaker who has followed the eastern frontier for more than a decade - by road, rail and river ferry, from Lapland to the Danube delta. Where a place is described from ground level, he has stood there.

The site is published in English.