News from Euroregion Baltic

INTERACT prepared and submitted a Position Paper on the conclusions of the 5th Cohesion Report, on behalf of European Territorial Cooperation, IPA CBC and ENPI CBC programme practitioners.You can download the report here.

Following a very successful series of cross-border workshops held in the Autumn of 2010, the Capacity Building Project is now organising two more workshops on practical issues regarding project development.

On 1st January 2011 Hungary has for the first time in its history officially assumed the Presidency of the Council of the European Union. The half-year presidency, which is widely recognised by Hungarians as an important and historical development, comes at a time of serious economic problems not only for the country itself, but for […]

The Committee of the Regions and its Europe 2020 Monitoring Platform have issued the first Monitoring Report on Europe 2020. The report, which will be published every year in December, highlights the issues at stake from the viewpoint of the local and regional authorities on the basis of its consultative activity in the policy fields […]

According to the Polish News Bulletin, the board of Swedish transmission system operator Svenska Kraftnat has decided to invest SEK2.6bn (close to LTL700m, approx. EUR200m) into the planned power link between Lithuania and Sweden, known as NordBalt.

The Scientific Journals of the Maritime University of Szczecin published an article entitled “EU measure protecting the environment implemented in Euroregion Baltic”, which investigates ecological measures for marine environment protection financed by the EU within euroregional structures.

The Yc3 – Youth Cross-border Cooperation and Communication project has launched the sixth issue of the E-magazine concerning recent activities carried out within the project.

Centre for Eastern Studies reports on the the meeting of the Hungarian government delegation in Brussels and Paris (17 and 19 November) during which the agenda of the Hungarian presidency of the Council of the EU in the first half of 2011 was presented. The Hungarian government is seeking support for the completion of accession […]

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!

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.