The Secretariat of the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe programme gave notice of the release of the Activity Report 2021 – Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe Programme.

All papers presented to the REDETE conference will be considered for publication by the Editorial Committee of the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, as well as in the form of an edited book in the Routledge series of Europe-Regional Studies. Deadline for submission: 31 May 2022

A report released on the 14th July with the title: “EU Border Regions: Living labs of European integration” gives an overview of the issues faced by cross-border regions and taking stock of the progress made over the last few years; spells out future developments, explaining how initiatives under the new 7-year EU budget can be used to stimulate the recovery of border areas, furthermore, it highlights the need to step up cross-border cooperation on all fronts to make these regions more resilient and help them harness their potential.

The report “EUSAIR facilitating the enlargement process of the Western Balkans”, written by OBC Transeuropa and CeSPI and published by the European Commission, examines the complementarities between the EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian macro-region (EUSAIR) and the enlargement process to the Western Balkan countries participating in the EUSAIR. It analyses the EUSAIR and the relevant EU documents, and explores the potential contribution of the EUSAIR to the WB integration process with a series of 37 in-depth interviews. Finally, it makes a number of policy recommendations in this field.

The “Final Consolidated Input Document of the Danube Countries for the Revision of the EUSDR Action Plan (V1)” was published. The document describes the strategic and operational framework and details the revised targets, actions and projects for the EUSDR.

You can read now the OECD Synthesis Report: Multi-level Governance and Cross-Sector Practices Supporting the EUSAIR and OECD National EUSAIR Multi-Level Governance Self-Assessment Tool.