Forum on Eastern Partnership

Regional and Local Dimension of the Eastern Partnership
Date: 16 June 2009
Venue: Committee of the Regions of the European Union, Brussels

CONCLUSIONS
The Committee of the Region's Eastern Partnership (EaP) forum provided an opportunity to share experiences and encourage local projects among members of the Eastern Partnership countries, businesses and non governmental organisations, associations and EU institutions as well as national, regional and local representatives.
The forum addressed the Eastern Partnership with a political approach at the opening, including the contributions of his President Luc Van den Brande, the Permanent Representative of Poland to the EU, H.E. Ambassador Tombinski,  the representative of the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and of the upcoming Presidency of the EU, M. Anders Henriksson, and M. Janos Herman, Special Advisor on the EaP at the European Commission's Directorate General for External Relations. The two workshops held in the afternoon focused respectively on territorial cooperation and economic development and on capacity building and good governance.

The documents of the event are available on-line:

• Proceedings of the Forum
• Programme of the Forum
• Report
• The documents distributed during the forum: CoR opinion on the EaP, "The role of local and regional authorities within the new Eastern Partnership", a draft report prepared for the works of the CoR RELEX Commission.

The keynote speeches:

• Mr Luc Van den Brande, president of the CoR
• Mr. Anders Henriksson, Senior Special Adviser at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Sweden
• H.E. Jan Tombinski, Ambassador, Permanent Representation of Poland to the European Union

Presentations:  

• Challenges and opportunities for local self-government and NGO-s in remote areas or territories: the Ukrainian perspective, by Oleh, Luksha, Executive Director - Transcarpathian Regional Branch of Association of Ukrainian Cities and Communities(link to the doc)
• Cross Border Cooperation under ENPI, by Nathalie Thiberge - EuropeAid, European Commission
• La construction institutionnelle et la bonne gouvernance universitaire – expérience de la République de Moldavie, Ana Gutu, Recteur, Free University of Chisinau
• Building bridges between Local Authorities and civil society in the Eastern Partnership countries, by Srdjan Cvijic, Association of Local Democracy Agencies

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