Month: May 2018

The President of the Adriatic Ionian Euroregion, Nikola Dobroslavić will be one of the panelists in the opening session of the 3rd EUSAIR Forum which will be held in Catania (Italy) from 24-25 May 2018. Nikola Dobroslavić will act as chair of the Adriatic-Ionian Interregional Group at the Committee of the Regions. The key message of the President will be that regions, as well as key local stakeholders and networks, should be much more involved in the EUSAIR implementation process as relevant actors able to provide concrete solutions to the macro regional area.   Other keynote addresses will be...

On 17 May, the Vice President of the Euroregion Aldrin Dalipi and the Secretary General Francesco Cocco took part in the joint meeting of EUSAIR Friends and the CPMR Adriatic-Ionian Task Force at the European Parliament in Brussels. The meeting was jointly organised by the CPMR and the MEP Ivan Jakovcic. The EUSAIR Friends is an informal group of the European Parliament promoted by Mr. Jakovcic and composed by seventeen MEPs from different political groups and Member States with the purpose to follow the progress of the EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region. The meeting was moderated by...

As Vice President of the Adriatic Ionian Group at the Committee of the Regions, Mr. Nikola Dobroslavic (AIE’s President) chaired on 17 May 2018 in Brussels the 14th meeting of this interregional group. The meeting was focused on the EUSAIR implementation and it was introduced by Giannantonio Ballette from the Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy of European Commission, as Coordinator of the EU macro-regional Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region. The discussion was also focused on the state of play of the three main ETC programmes of the area. The speakers were: • Nicola Panarello on behalf...

The 128th plenary session of the Committee of the Regions adopts in March 2018, the opinion “Enlargement: Inclusion of Western Balkans Local and Regional Authorities in the EU’s Macro-regional, Cross-border and other Transnational Cooperation Initiatives”. The rapporteur is Franz Schausberger, as representative of the Province of Salzburg at the Committee of the Regions. Mr. Schausberger notes with concern that in most Balkan countries public administration at all levels of government, particularly local self-government, remains weak, with limited administrative capacity, a high degree of politicisation and corruption, a lack of transparency and few financial resources and stresses that the functioning of...