The accord was set up in order to facilitate the cross-border flow of travellers and goods, while co-ordinating enforcement efforts in the two countries.

Firms increasingly operate through international business networks, generating cross-border flows of information, people, skills and finance.

Yet the impact of a disruption of cross-border flows of goods, services, capital and labour can be predicted.

The absence of currency risks within the euro area created more competitive financial markets and facilitated larger cross-border flows of capital.

One sign of this was a decline in cross-border flows between euro-area banks.

Business groups claim that this situation hampers cross-border investment.

Next week it will be about signing some 60 bilateral agreements on cross-border investment, research and education.

And, unless we can win the popular argument that globalisation can be good, cross-border investment and commerce will be far less than it should be.

Until recently, economists took comfort from the fact that much of this slowdown appeared to reflect lower cross-border investment, rather than a sharp increase in protectionist measures.

It's not difficult to see how this could end badly, for international relations, for trade and cross-border investment and ultimately for the global economy.

A second type of cross-border merger was a 'merger by formation of a new company'.

The second category gauges which companies have made the best use of the internal market and generated value through cross-border mergers and acquisitions.

Only then was its power as a potential scuttler of cross-border mergers and acquisitions realised.

There have been several attempts at cross-border mergers and alliances between exchanges for more than a decade as profits from the business of running stock markets have fallen.

It added that cross-border mergers and acquisitions were particularly badly affected by the slowdown in investment, with only the oil, mining and agrifood sectors reporting a rise in such activity.

It could have thrown open the frontier, and removed all restrictions on cross-border movement.

The global economic factors driving the rise of multinational corporationsnamely, cross-border movement of goods, services, technology and capitalare changing ways of thinking about labor and the structure of today's workforce.

This results in regular cross-border movement.

But as from three weeks ago, all cross-border operations were called off and everyone was focused on stopping the 'peace flotilla'.

And many have significant cross-border operations, which makes co-ordinating rescues difficult.

The mandate for cross-border operations was meant as an 'effective deterrent', he added.

The levels of prosperity, the connections of cross-border trade flows and the separation of the military from politics are all significant differences.

They want solutions to enable cross-border trade by alleviating trust and financial security issues.

Finally, at the start of a debate on cross-border trade, the wind picked up and lightning flashed.

The charity wants tighter controls on the cross-border trade.

The value of cross-border trade now far exceeds interprovincial trade; our two economies are increasingly a single entity.

The scheme, they say, could create the conditions for an illicit cross-border traffic in recyclables.

The once extensive facilities of the station have been closed with progressive decline in cross-border traffic since 1945.

Closing the border crossing has caused businesses that rely on cross-border traffic to lose revenue.

Vehicles in cross-border traffic are obliged to display a distinguishing sign of the country of registration on the rear of the vehicle.

They were replaced by police departments that almost exclusively deal with cross-border traffic.

Today's research also says that fraud has become more sophisticated, with many cases involving cross-border transactions and multiple countries.

The reduction in cross-border transaction costs will allow larger banking firms to provide a wider array of banking services that can compete across and beyond the eurozone.

We can simplify the complexity of cross-border transactions and ensure expectations and individual delivery choices are met, wherever customers are in the world.

A deal would strengthen its hand in cross-border transactions, analysts said.

There have been 'mega-deal' cross-border transactions, 'take privates', club deals, even a few hostile bids, while activist investors have driven up the valuations of several large transactions.