On 19 and 20th November ERB Council will meet on Bornholm. Among the highlights of the meeting will be a discussion on the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region and workshops dealing with the proposals of so-called flagship projects, through which specific acions of the Strategy are planned to be implemented. Euroregion Baltic Information and Communication Strategy will also be presented for approval.

On 11th September ERB Executive Board met in Klaipeda. Among the highlights of the meeting was a discussion on the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region and the preparation for the Council meeting on 19 November. Please, see the Minutes

Following the decision by the Executive Board for Euroregion Baltic to take active part in the consultation of the upcoming EU strategy for the Baltic Sea, ERB Council members (including ERB Executive Board and ERB Youth Board), ERB Secretariats and leaders of the ERB Working Groups have been asked to contribute to the drafting of an ERB position on the strategy. Please, go to Questions to read through the document sent out around ERB.

Euroregion will also take part in the in the work to develop a joint position of 9 Baltic organisations (Euroregion Baltic, Baltic Sea States Sub-regional  Cooperation, CPMR Baltic Sea Commission, Baltic Development Forum, Barents Euro-Arctic Council, Union of the Baltic Cities, Baltic Metropoles Network, B7 and Baltic Sea Chambers of Commerce Association). The first meeting in the attemp to agree on such a joint position will take place in Copenhagen on 22nd Augist 2008.