Impact of Covid 19 on policies regarding cross border mobility of France and Germany in the border region of Strassburg and Baden-Württemberg

This thesis is about the impact of Covid 19 to cross border mobility policies. This is investigated at the example of the French and German border region of Straßburg and Baden Württemberg. For this policy papers, newspaper articles, scientific articles and other kind of secondary data are collected and analyzed and are put into a theoretical frame. During the pandemic the policy papers changed dependent on the situation of the pandemic. France and Germany had to implement new kind of polices to justify the regulations and measures taken in the pandemic. These policies were not advantageous for border regions and border commuters in this aera. Those regions were suffering from disadvantages in the first parts of the pandemic. During the pandemic the authorities have developed further and policies were changed in order to support border regions and commuters. In a second part of the thesis, it is analyzed, whether those changes are long term or are just short term adjustments, how other nations tackled the situation and whether more changes and policy adjustments have to be made. The goal is to get knowledge for further problems, and to gain the ability to handle further problems in a different way.