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Mercedes Bresso visiting Croatia
28.04.2011, 13:07
On the occasion of the Vukovar Danube Summit which will bring together national leaders from the 14 countries of the Danube region, the EU Commissioner for Regional Policy Johannes Hahn and Committee of the Regions (CoR) President Mercedes Bresso are visiting Croatia from 27 to 30 April 2011.
On Friday April 29, 2011 at the Danube summit in Vukovar, Croatia participants will discuss the way forward for the EU strategy for the Danube region. This initiative aims at improving coordination of the financial support available in the region and deepening cross-border cooperation in the fields of transport, environmental protection, competitiveness and security. Cooperation along these lines is already a reality on the Baltic Sea, and national ministers gave their green light for the Danube strategy on 13 April. They also invited Member States and the Commission to continue working on other possible future macro-regional strategies.
CoR President Bresso will attend the Danube summit in the framework of an institutional visit to Croatia, where she will meet with the Speaker of the Croatian Parliament, Luka Bebić, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and European Integration,Gordan Jandoković and the Minister for Regional Development, Božidar Pankretić.
The progress of Croatia's accession to the EU, local self-government and the future cohesion policy will be the focus of these meetings. President Bresso will also sit with the Presidents of the three Croatian Associations of local authorities.
As the possibility of an EU strategy for the Adriatic-Ionian Region is currently being explored by the CoR through an own-initiative opinion, President Bresso has accepted an invitation from the President of the Istria region, Ivan Jakovčić, to meet with the Prefects of the Croatian Adriatic Counties. The issue will also be the focus of a Summit of Foreign Affairs Ministers of the 8 States belonging to the Adriatic-Ionian Initiative, to be hosted by the CoR on the 23rd May in Brussels.