The EU Strategy for the Danube Region

Ms. Andreja Jerina

SloveniaNational Contact Point of Slovenia

“The Strategy delivers. It makes valuable results visible.”

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Ms. Snezhina Marinova

Bulgaria PAC 11, Bulgaria

“The Danube Strategy is a chance for further streamlining, coordinating and stepping up cooperation between the law enforcement bodies. It depends on us, on the relevant states involved to grasp the opportunity and turn it

into reality.”

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Ms. Irena Lukač

SloveniaPA 10, Slovenia; Center of Excellence in Finance, Slovenia

Rapporteur

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Mr. Strahil Karapchanski

BulgariaVice-Mayor of Ruse, Bulgaria

“The Strategy reconsiders and reshapes the processes of the political agenda-setting within the Danube Region in the

context of multi-level governance.”

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Mr. Midhat Džemić

Bosnia and HerzegovinaDirectorate for European Integration of Bosnia and Herzegovina

“The Danube Strategy needs alignments with the financial instruments it is supposed to use and with programming time schedules. It also needs alignment of EUSDR National Contact Points and National IPA Coordinators in case of candidate and

potential candidate countries”

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Ms. Snezana Filipovic

Republic of Serbia PA 10 Steering Group Member representing Serbia

“The Strategy is supposed to deepen institutional cooperation especially by establishing institutional networks and by

enabling the exchange of "best practices" within the Danube Region”

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Ms. Daniela Urschitz

Austria PA 10, City of Vienna

“To the Commissions three No's for the macro-regions, let us add the Councils three Yeses: yes to complementary founding, yes

to the coordination of institutional instruments, yes to the definition of new projects.”

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Mr. Helmut Habersack

AustriaUniversity of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna

“Providing project support and funding information will help promoters to realise the projects like DREAM which carry on

the idea and aims of the Danube Strategy!”

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Capacity Building

Mr. Peter Langer

GermanyCoordinator of the Council of the Danube Cities and Regions

"Cities and regions and their networks are crucial stability factors in the Danube Region and play a central role in the

implementation of the EUSDR."

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Cooperation

Ms. Martina K. Sommer

Austria Network coordinator: FemCities, Vienna

“The FemCities network uses the EUSDR as impetus to strengthen communication on gender equality issues in the Danube Region. Cooperation multiplies output and benefits all.”

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Financing

Ms. Marlene Hahn

AustriaProject Manager at Metis GmbH, Vienna

“There is no lack of financial instruments but there exists diverse difficulties for project promoters to access those instruments.”

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