EU Strategy for Baltic Sea

Follow this link to find an interesting comment by Halldór Ásgrímsson, Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers and Mr. Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, Chair of the Baltic Development Forum and a former Foreign Minister of Denmark (after EUobserver.com).

On 7th October 2009, in the Regional Office of Pomorskie Region in Brussels, a Euroregion Baltic seminar took place with the participation of Euroregion Baltic Executive Board, representatives of the BSSSC, UBS and Baltic 7 Islands, as well as invited guests representing Polish Permanent Representation to the EU, European Offices of London, Highlands & Islands, […]

The role of local and regional authorities was the subject of the seminar during Almedalsveckan on Gotland on 29th June 2009, organised by the regions of Blekinge, Kalmar and Södra Småland together with the SIDA unit on Gotland. More than 50 people participated in the seminar with contributions from inter alia Mr Anders Lindholm (DG […]

Six Baltic organisations: BSSSC – Baltic Sea States Subregional Cooperation, B7 Baltic Islands Network, Euroregion Baltic, Baltic Development Forum, Baltic Sea Commission of the Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions and Union of the Baltic Cities have finalised their joint position paper, including a governance proposal and list of flagship projects. On 1st December 2008 the documents were […]

You can read the second non-paper presented by the Office of the Committee for European Integration in Poland here.

Go to this link to the VASAB non-paper for the territorial dimension of the EU Baltic Sea Region Strategy. This non-paper reflects on the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region seen from the perspective of the work in VASAB done so far based on the outcomes of analytical work during the preparation of the Long Term Perspective […]

As a result of the process initiated in June and involving all stakeholders of the ERB cooperation, the ERB Council passed the resolution containing its contribution towards the consultation on the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region. Please read here.

Union of the Baltic Cities has adopted their postion paper towards the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, to be read here.

The Polish region of Warmia and Mazuy has just adopted its position paper towards the EU strategy for the Baltic Sea Region.

Baltic Metropoles network (BaltMet) representing 11 capitals and metropolitan cities around the Baltic Sea (Berlin, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Malmö, Oslo, Riga, Stockholm, St.Petersburg, Tallinn, Vilnius and Warsaw) have announced their position towards the EU strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, accompanied by an inventory of projects implmented within their cooperation.