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Baltic Master II

Under this link you will find the latest neswletter from the Baltic Master II project. This issue highlights a contingency exercise in North-West Skane and cross-border oil spill exercise in Gothenburg. Enjoy the read!

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RegioNetwork 2020

The European Commission has launched RegioNetwork 2020, a new professional website on regional policy. RegioNetwork 2020 is an on-line forum for exchanges of good practices and discussions relating to EU Cohesion Policy.

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Fifth Cohesion Report

Every three years, the EU publishes a report on economic, social and territorial cohesion, detailing progress in these areas and how the EU, national and regional governments have contributed. The 5th Cohesion Report has just been published. The main issues covered are: analysis of regional disparities, contribution of the EU, national and regional governments to […]

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Added value of cross-border cooperation

INTERACT Point Vienna conducted two pilot studies aimed at testing joined evaluations of cross-border cooperation programmes in Central and South-Eastern Europe. A published report presents the outcomes, including main common findings of both studies, the description of the evaluation process, limitations and lessons learned from the exercise.

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Capacity Building Project launches Third Call for Experts

The Capacity Building Project is launching the Third Call for Experts. The project is looking for independent experts from Denmark, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden and other EU countries to engage in a pool of experts to support the potential beneficiaries for the Capacity Building Project.

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EU Budget Review

The European Commission has published its communication on the budget review on 19 October 2010. Its main findings are that the current rules for the EU budget make it slow to react to unforeseen events while too many complexities hinder its efficiency and transparency.

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ERB Council meeting in Kosta, Sweden

The meeting of the Council of the Euroregion Baltic took place in Kosta, Sweden between 28-29th October 2010. The meeting was of special importance to the future of ERB as it marked the completion of the cooperation review process which had started in October 2009 and continued throughout 2010. The highlights of the process included […]

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Eurobarometer survey

A new EU-wide survey analyses the answers to the questions asked to representative samples of EU citizens in each EU Member country in order to examine EU citizens’ awareness and perceptions about EU Regional policy. Questions posed in the survey included: How many EU citizens are aware of the support received in the framework of […]

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ERB President reports to CoR

ERB President, Mr Jacek Protas was a rapporteur for the Committee of the Regions which will be making in the period up to December 2010 an assessment of the situation facing local and regional authorities in the Eastern Partnership countries. On 06.10.2010, the Committee of the Regions adopted the opinion presented by Mr Protas.

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Results of public consultations on EGTC regulation

Between May and July 2010 the Committee of Regions organised public consultations on the future of the regulation No 1082/2006 on the European Groupings of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC). The consultations were supported by the EU Presidency Trio (Spain, Belgium, Hungary), the European Commission and INTERACT programme. The main objective was to gather opinions on the […]

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