A new EU-wide survey analyses the answers to the questions asked to representative samples of EU citizens in each EU Member country in order to examine EU citizens’ awareness and perceptions about EU Regional policy. Questions posed in the survey included: How many EU citizens are aware of the support received in the framework of […]
>ERB President, Mr Jacek Protas was a rapporteur for the Committee of the Regions which will be making in the period up to December 2010 an assessment of the situation facing local and regional authorities in the Eastern Partnership countries. On 06.10.2010, the Committee of the Regions adopted the opinion presented by Mr Protas.
>Between May and July 2010 the Committee of Regions organised public consultations on the future of the regulation No 1082/2006 on the European Groupings of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC). The consultations were supported by the EU Presidency Trio (Spain, Belgium, Hungary), the European Commission and INTERACT programme. The main objective was to gather opinions on the […]
>The MOMENT Modern Water Management Project being implemented within the South Baltic Cross-border Co-operation Programme has issued its second newsletter.
>The EU-funded TEN-T project entitled ‘Baltic-Link Motorways of the Seas Gdynia-Karlskrona’ has recently issued its second 2010 newsletter. It contains description of activities that have been conducted within the project so far, including an important project meeting that was held between 10-11th May 2010 in Gdynia, Poland.
>The European Grouping for Territorial Cooperation (EGTC) Grande Region (Greater Region) was established in April 2010 and is now the first such organisation to become a Managing Authority of an INTERREG Programme, in this case the INTERREG IV A Programme Grande Region. It consists of eleven partners from four EU Member States (Belgium, France, Germany, […]
>On 23rd September in Copenhagen, Denmark the ERB Executive Board adopted a joint statement in support of ongoing process to introduce the local border traffic regime on the border with the Kaliningrad Region. The statement reads as follows: The Executive Board of Euroregion Baltic fully supports the efforts taken by the Governments of the Republic […]
>On 18th August 2010 the Council of Ministers adopted the position of the Government of the Republic of Poland on the future of Cohesion Policy after 2013, entitled: “Cohesion Policy as an efficient, effective and territorially differentiated response to EU development challenges”.
>The Capacity Building Project is now accepting applications for a series of cross-border workshops. The workshops are addressed to potential beneficiaries of the South Baltic Cross-border Cooperation Programme who have a concrete project idea to be developed on cross-border level and would like to receive support from a panel of experts. The experts will participate […]
>The Capacity Building Project has recently issued its first newsletter. It contains information about the most important achievements of the project so far and also provides an insight into its ongoing and future activities such as one-day training sessions in national languages, cross-border workshops for beneficiaries with concrete project proposals and the rent-an-expert facility. The […]
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