News from Euroregion Baltic

On 10th May Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk officialy presented the logo of the upcoming Polish EU Presidency. The logo consists of six arrow head directed upwards in red – symbolising Poland with the national flag – orange, blue, green, black and yellow. 

According to the Europolitics on-line daily, the European Parliament’s Committee on Regional Development (REGI) is in favour of increasing the budget allocated for territorial cooperation (Objective 3 of the Cohesion Policy) to 7% in the future EU cohesion budget.

The South Baltic Cross-border Cooperation Programme 2007-2013 is launching the 7th Call for Proposals.

On 30th May 2011 the European Commission is organising a public hearing on the future EU actions in the field of Integrated Coastal Zone Management.

On Wednesday April 13 , the ministers of the 27 EU Member States formally adopted the EU Strategy for the Danube Region proposed by the European Commission last December and approved by the European Parliament. Covering a fifth of the EU (100 million inhabitants), the Danube Region is key to the well-being of the EU […]

During its meeting in Rostock, Germanny on 13th April 2011 the Steering Committee of the South Baltic Cross-border Co-operation Programme 2007-2013 decided to approve 14 projects amounting to 11 088 812,15 EUR (ERDF co-financing) in the framework of the 6th Call for Proposals.

The Capacity Building Project has recently published the final version of the Analysis of Barriers for Project Development.

The conference on the Europrean Groupings for Territorial Coopereation (EGTC) and multilevel governance organised by the Hungarian Ministry of Justice and Public Administration within the framework of Hungarian EU Presidency was held between 21-23rd March 2011 in Gödöllö, Hungary.

On 21st February 2011, during its meeting in Kaliningrad, Russia, the ERB Youth Board elected Mr Irmantas Sujeta for the position of the Board’s Chairperson.

The South Baltic CBC Programme has recently issued its first 2011 Compass Newsletter with information about recent activities within the Programme itself as well as the Capacity Building Project.