News from Euroregion Baltic

The September 2011 edition of the MOMENT project newsletter investigates innovative environmentally-friendly solutions for stormwater treatment in the Baltic Sea Region.

Regional Municipality of Bornholm has adopted the Strategy for Citizen Involvement whose objective will be to improve the engagement of the inhabitants of the island in the decision processes. The Strategy will enable the citizens to assist politicians and civil servants in the achivement of the vision that the Council of Bornholm adopted for 2010 […]

On 29th July 2011 the European Commission presented a proposal to amend the Regulation (EC) No 1931/2006 laying down rules on local border traffic at the external land borders of the Member States by including the entire Kaliningrad Region and selected Polish administrative districts in the eligible border area including Gdynia, Gdańsk, Sopot, Olsztyn and […]

In an article published in the latest supplement issue of the Baltic Rim Economies Quarterly Review, Mr Radosław Sikorski, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs presents main priorities and challenges of the first ever Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

According to new figures presented by the Statistics Sweden (SCB) agency, Växjö is currently the second Swedish city after Stockholm that has grown most over the past five years with an increase in the number of inhabitants at around 9,5 percent since 2005.

Around 10.000 people in total participated in Folkemødet, a political festival organised on Bornholm between 15 and 18 June 2011. It was the first time for Folkemødet to have been organised but the next year’s edition is already being planned. Folkemødet follows the example of the well established Swedish Almedalsveckan (to be held in Visby between 4 […]

Ms Vera Opacic, a political science student at the Linnaeus University in Växjö, has recently published a Master’s Thesis entitled “Euroregion Baltic (ERB) – A more dynamic and stronger Euroregion from a neoregionalistic perspective”.

The third meeting of the ERB Water Working Group took place in Elbląg on 9th June 2011 and was presided over by Mr Åke Nilsson, Member of the ERB Executive Board, who assumed the chairmanship of the Water Working Group.

The latest edition of the Baltic Master II project newsletter brings information about the recent developments and results achieved by the project so far.

Yesterday, Poland presnted its programme for the EU Presidency in the second half of this year. It focuses on three main priorities: a) European integration as the source of growth (dealing with EU Budget and Single Market, b) Secure Europe (dealing with food, energy, and defence, and c) Europe benefiting from openness (Southern and Eastern […]