European Border Cities EGTC was founded in September 2014. The grouping has two founding members: the local authority of Nyíregyháza County (Hungary) and the municipal council of Satu Mare (Romania). The president of the European Border Cities EGTC is Dr Ferenc Kovács, mayor of Nyíregyháza; the co-president is Gábor Kereskényi, mayor of Satu Mare; and its director is István Pató, who is head of the Urban Planning and City Management department in the mayor's office in Nyíregyháza.

The grouping is an independently managed, non-profit organisation whose remit is to strengthen economic and social cohesion between its members through cross-border cooperation. The goal of the grouping is to generate joint regional development, tourism development programmes and tourism plans, and to implement and develop cross-border projects. The activity of the EGTC has grown over the past year, when it organised several events relating to its approved projects.

The European Border Cities EGTC has launched various vocational programmes over the past year. Following the launch of the Hungary-Romania cross-border development programmes for 2014-2020, the quadripartite (HU-SK-RO-UA) cross-border cooperation programmes provided opportunities to implement the plans of the grouping.

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