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July 8, 2011 Ambitions for the Baltic Sea Region

Together with our Polish partners and the European Commission, it is great pleasure for me to present the first programme of the BDF Summit and the Commission’s Annual Forum on the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, 24-26 October 2011 in Gdansk, Poland. At the same time, we are launching the special website www.bsr2011.eu [...]

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April 13, 2011 Specialisation in the Baltic Sea Region

Last week the first of the regional Europe 2020 conferences took place in Malmö, Sweden. The overall title of the conference was smart specialisation. The idea with these conferences is to establish a closer link between the EU strategy for the Baltic Sea Region and the Europe 2020 growth strategy of the EU. Baltic Development [...]

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March 21, 2011 Baltic Sea Macro-region progress and EU strategy

The Baltic Sea Macro-region is progressing well although the EU strategy has some infancy illnesses. This is one of the conclusions of the BDF seminar in Stockholm last week. One problem is that the private sector needs to be more involved. Vice-chairman of BDF, Stephan Müchler who is also chairman of Baltic Chamber of Commerce [...]

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