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Macro-regions in the European Union.
Author: Hr. Hrisoskulov
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The development of new initiatives for creating new macro-regions in the European Union has recently speeded up considerably, and the range of new fields of regional cooperation is expanding noticeably. The European Commission adopted a
Communication on the
EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region on 10 June 2009. On 8 December 2010 the European Commission will adopt a Communication on the
EU Strategy for the Danube Region. Under German EU Presidency in 2007, the EU has developed under the framework of the European Neighbourhood policy a programme, “
Black Sea Synergy”, with a number of concrete initiatives looking at areas like transport, energy, the environment, maritime management, fisheries, migration, and the fight against organised crime, the information society and cultural cooperation. The Black Sea region has the potential to become the third macro-region in the European Union.
