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May 16, 2012 Good intentions on energy cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region

The Ministers responsible for Energy in the Baltic Sea states – at a meeting this week in Berlin – have committed themselves to use 1 million Euros for special projects the next three years to meet global energy policy challenges: i.e. security of energy supply, increased energy efficiency and use og renewable resources including integration of fluctuating [...]

May 10, 2012 Join the Baltic Business Arena

The business matchmaking event Baltic Business Arena will take place as an integrated part of the Summit and Annual Forum. At the Baltic Business Arena small and medium sized companies from the entire Baltic Sea Region will have the opportunity to book face-to-face meetings with other companies in a specially designed meeting arena. The first [...]

May 8, 2012 Estonian President Ilves: Baltic Sea integration to overrule protectionist tendencies i EU

One of the founding fathers of the Baltic Sea Strategy, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, President of Estonia, in an exclusive interview with BDF, is calling for more integration to match the protectionist tendencies in the European Union. “The countries around the Baltic rim are willing to do it, and I think it will make life better [...]

May 7, 2012 Updated Summit Programme available for download

With more than one month left before the 14th Baltic Development Forum Summit and the European Commission’s 3rd Annual Forum on the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, we have put together 7 plenary sessions, 12 parallel thematic sessions, and last but not least Networking and Project Village activities embracing a lot of presentations [...]

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May 7, 2012 Side-event buzz at BSR Summit and Annual Forum

The Summit and Annual Forum also creates a good opportunity for organisations and projects involved in regional cooperation to gather their stakeholders for side-events back to back with the conference. This year more side-events than ever before are taking place in and around the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. One of these is [...]