OSIJEK OSIJEK, Aug 6 (Hina) - Transborder cooperation in the Danube-Drava-Sava region is of vital importance because relations with neighbours is of strategic interest, participants of a seminar organised by the Osijek-based Council
of Europe agency for democracy. The Danube-Drava-Sava Euroregion which is currently presided over by Osijek-Baranja County, gathers local self-government units and chambers of commerce from Croatia, Hungary and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Participants of the seminar told a news conference they were convinced that activities in the Euroregion would improve traffic connection, facilitate the drawing closer to European associations, and contribute to the realisation of joint projects in economy, culture, education and ecology. Head of the department for the coordination of assistance programmes and cooperation with the EU, Indira Konjhodzic, said the European Commission for transborder activities is ex
OSIJEK, Aug 6 (Hina) - Transborder cooperation in the Danube-Drava-
Sava region is of vital importance because relations with
neighbours is of strategic interest, participants of a seminar
organised by the Osijek-based Council of Europe agency for
democracy.
The Danube-Drava-Sava Euroregion which is currently presided over
by Osijek-Baranja County, gathers local self-government units and
chambers of commerce from Croatia, Hungary and Bosnia-
Herzegovina.
Participants of the seminar told a news conference they were
convinced that activities in the Euroregion would improve traffic
connection, facilitate the drawing closer to European
associations, and contribute to the realisation of joint projects
in economy, culture, education and ecology.
Head of the department for the coordination of assistance
programmes and cooperation with the EU, Indira Konjhodzic, said the
European Commission for transborder activities is expected to
assist with significantly lesser funds that Slovenia or Hungary
received within the PHARE programme. She added Croatia would be
satisfied if it could receive 1,300,000 euro next year for the
transborder activities.
Head of the Osijek agency, Miljenko Turniski, said transborder
cooperation could be financed in several ways, including via the
congress of local and regional governments of the Council of
Europe, or Stability Pact funds.
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