EU Strategy for Baltic Sea

Documentation of the Committee of the Regions' Forum on Macro-Regions is now available.

The European Commission has updated the Action Plan accompanying the Baltic Sea Strategy in its communication to the European Parliament, Council, the European Economic and Social Committee, and the Committee of the Regions.

A ScanBalt Health Region (SBHR) round table took place on 19 March 2010 in Gdansk.

The informal Baltic Sea Group together with the Nordic Council of Ministers and DG Regio would like to invite to the seminar entitled "Realizing the EU strategy for the Baltic Sea Region through Nordic-European synergies in cooperation". The seminar will discuss opportunities for realizing synergies between regional, Nordic and European collaboration in working towards realizing […]

On 15-16th April 2010 in Stockholm the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (Naturvårdsverket) is holding the first meeting of a forum concerning the Priority Area 3 of the Strategy – To reduce the use and impact of hazardous substances. The main goal of the forum is to agree on a list of flagships that would be […]

On the European Commission website under this link you will find recent update on the latest and upcoming events related to the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region. This link will take you to the key contacts involved in the Strategy.

The Committee of the Regions (CoR) invites interested regional representatives, experts and other stakeholders from existing and emerging 'macro-regions' to discuss issues related to strategy development and implementation and other themes of common interest at the CoR headquarters in Brussels (101 rue Belliard) on Tuesday, 13 April 2010. Please, find out more here.

State Chancellery of the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is the Coordinator of the Priority Area Tourism within the EU-Action Plan for the Baltic Sea Region. It has now taken its first steps to initiate the implementation process. Lead Partners for the relevant flagship projects had been found and a joint kick–off meeting took place in […]

On 16th November 2009 the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Polish Ambassador in Stokholm hosted a meeting of the heads of Polish embassies and consulates around the Baltic Sea Region with the aim of discussing multilateral context of the Polish foreign policy in the context of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region. […]

EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region was adopted at the European Council meeting in Brussels on 29-30 October 2009. Read more here.