The EU Strategy for the Danube Region
Mar 27, 2015
The EU Strategy for the Danube Region
Ms. Andreja Jerina
SloveniaNational Contact Point of Slovenia
“The Strategy delivers. It makes valuable results visible.”
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Ms. Snezhina Marinova
Bulgaria PAC 11, Bulgaria
“The Danube Strategy is a chance for further streamlining, coordinating and stepping up cooperation between the law enforcement bodies. It depends on us, on the relevant states involved to grasp the opportunity and turn it
into reality.”
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Ms. Irena Lukač
SloveniaPA 10, Slovenia; Center of Excellence in Finance, Slovenia
Rapporteur
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Mr. Strahil Karapchanski
BulgariaVice-Mayor of Ruse, Bulgaria
“The Strategy reconsiders and reshapes the processes of the political agenda-setting within the Danube Region in the
context of multi-level governance.”
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Mr. Midhat Džemić
Bosnia and HerzegovinaDirectorate for European Integration of Bosnia and Herzegovina
“The Danube Strategy needs alignments with the financial instruments it is supposed to use and with programming time schedules. It also needs alignment of EUSDR National Contact Points and National IPA Coordinators in case of candidate and
potential candidate countries”
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Ms. Snezana Filipovic
Republic of Serbia PA 10 Steering Group Member representing Serbia
“The Strategy is supposed to deepen institutional cooperation especially by establishing institutional networks and by
enabling the exchange of "best practices" within the Danube Region”
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Ms. Daniela Urschitz
Austria PA 10, City of Vienna
“To the Commissions three No's for the macro-regions, let us add the Councils three Yeses: yes to complementary founding, yes
to the coordination of institutional instruments, yes to the definition of new projects.”
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Mr. Helmut Habersack
AustriaUniversity of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
“Providing project support and funding information will help promoters to realise the projects like DREAM which carry on
the idea and aims of the Danube Strategy!”
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Capacity Building
Mr. Peter Langer
GermanyCoordinator of the Council of the Danube Cities and Regions
"Cities and regions and their networks are crucial stability factors in the Danube Region and play a central role in the
implementation of the EUSDR."
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Cooperation
Ms. Martina K. Sommer
Austria Network coordinator: FemCities, Vienna
“The FemCities network uses the EUSDR as impetus to strengthen communication on gender equality issues in the Danube Region. Cooperation multiplies output and benefits all.”
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Financing
Ms. Marlene Hahn
AustriaProject Manager at Metis GmbH, Vienna
“There is no lack of financial instruments but there exists diverse difficulties for project promoters to access those instruments.”
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