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Russia, Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia to benefit from European Week of Regions and Cities

12-10-2011

The EU is willing to share its experience of successfully reducing regional disparities and investing in growth and jobs though European structural funds with Russia, Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia, among other countries, during the European Week of Regions and Cities, held in Brussels from 11 to 13 October (OPEN DAYS 2011).
 
A press release said delegations from these countries, as well as from China, Japan, Brazil and Chile, would benefit from discussions with Commissioner for Regional Policy Johannes Hahn, who would explain how EU regional policy works focusing in particular on the Commission's recent proposals for a sweeping change of cohesion policy for 2014 - 2020.
 
Several events are taking place in Brussels during the week:
 
11 October:
  • Seminar on "Cohesion Policy in the Eastern Partnership": regional policy dialogues have been initiated with Georgia and Moldova. Officials from Moldova have just come back from a study visit to Latvia and to Flanders in Belgium.
12 October:
  • EU-Ukraine seminar on regional policy": a Memorandum of Understanding was signed on regional policy in 2009 between the EU and Ukraine. A joint study by the OECD will soon provide an important tool for the Ukrainian government to fine-tune its regional development policy.
  • EU-Russia on "mono-cities":Russian and European experts will exchange experiences on development and restructuring plans carried out in EU and Russian cities which were reliant on a single industry in the past ("mono-sectoral cities").
 
Russia, Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia have all concluded a Memorandum of Understanding with the EU on regional policy, which stipulates a formal and structured dialogue based on an agreed programme of high-level meetings, seminars and studies on regional policy and economic development in the countries concerned.
 
Multi-level governance (involving local, regional, national levels in the decision-making and implementation process), cross-border cooperation, regional innovation systems, classification of regions and the role of smaller towns as poles of balanced development are among the key areas of common interest. (ENPI Info Centre)
 
Read more
 
Press release
 
www.opendays.europa.eu
 
European Commission - Regional policy
 
 

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