On 27 January 2020 AEBR organized an Information Session on Russian-EU CBC at the European Committee of the Regions, with the participation of CoR President, the Russian Ambassador to the EU with a personal message of the new Minister of Economic Development, various departments of the Russian Government, the European Parliament, the External Action Service, and representatives of all seven RU-EU CBC programmes within the European Neighbourhood Instrument (ENI)
On 27 January 2020 AEBR organized an Information Session on the practice and future perspectives of Russian-EU CBC at the European Committee of the Regions, with the participation of CoR President Karl-Heinz Lambertz, the Russian Ambassador to the EU, Amb. Vladimir Chizhov, with a personal message of the new Minister of Economic Development, Maxim Reshetnikov, various departments of the Russian Government, the European Parliament, the External Action Service, and representatives of all seven RU-EU CBC programmes within the European Neighbourhood Instrument (ENI).
Currently there are eight active territorial cooperation programmes within the European Neighbourhood Instrument (ENI-CBC) involving the participation of Russian and EU regions in many projects:
Some of these programmes have been implemented for almost 25 years, since the start of the first Tacis CBC programmes across the Russian-Finnish border in 1996, and their progression into ENPI-CBC programmes in 2007-2013 and ENI-CBC in 2014-2020, fully integrated in the European Neighbourhood Policy.
These programmes were managed by DG Near until December 2019 and, from January 2020, by DG Regio. This transition will certainly benefit of concentrating all territorial initiatives under the same DG, but it might also open some questions. This session wanted to make visible most questions about current programmes under implementation and future ones.
You can see the final programme of this session with links to all programmes presentations (in EN and in RU).
We would like to stress the relevant role of TESIM, the instrument established to support ENI-CBC 2014-2020 programmes.
On 28-29 January, ENI CBC programmes held their Annual Conference in Brussels, where AEBR was also present with a stand on IVY (ENI-CBC eligible countries are also eligible for IVY since the beginning of 2020). AEBR thanks TESIM for the support given in raising the visibility of the initiative Interreg Volunteer Youth and looks forward to support cross-border cooperation practices between the EU and its neighbouring countries.
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