Newsletter 24/2012

December 27, 2012

 
IN FOCUS
Hido Biscevic, outgoing RCC Secretary General (Photo: http://www.mojportal.ba)

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SEEING ITS FUTURE, THE REGION CAN DEAL WITH THE PRESENT, by Hido Biscevic, outgoing RCC Secretary General

Again, as almost every turn of the year during my term at the helm of the RCC, we are closing 2012 with mixed feelings and contradicting overviews...
 
OUR SOUTH EAST EUROPE

INTERVIEW with Vjekoslav Bevanda, Chairman of the Council of Ministers, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Fulfilment of EU requirements for candidate status application a pending challenge

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South East European civil society finding their way to EU accession negotiations

Negotiations with the European Union (EU) in the accession process are either a recent history or a near future for the majority of South East European (SEE) countries...

The RCC strives to ensure all-inclusiveness necessary for success in the overall process of regional cooperation (Photo: http://www.citizens-initiative.eu)

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Shapes, sounds and images of regional cooperation in art and culture

Art and culture frequently reach over borders at which politics stumbles...

 RCC Secretariat published music CD Les Femmes Des Balkans featuring 14 artists from the region (Photo: RCC)

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FROM BRUSSELS ANGLE
Fernando Gentilini, Director for Western Europe, Western Balkans and Turkey in the European External Action Service (EEAS) (Photo: www.kohaditre.com)
 INTERVIEW with Fernando Gentilini, Director for Western Europe, Western Balkans and Turkey in the European External Action Service (EEAS)

Regional cooperation and good neighbourly relations essential parts of enlargement process: RCC can be extremely useful  read more

Madlen Serban, Director of the European Training Foundation, Turin, Italy (Photo: courtesy of Ms Serban)
 INTERVIEW with Madlen Serban, Director of the European Training Foundation, Turin, Italy

Translating human capital into concrete areas of cooperation leads to sustainable development of the region read more

 
GUEST COMMENTATOR
Dimitar Bechev, Head of Sofia Office and Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations (Photo: www.europost.bg)
 "As 2012 draws to a close, one could tentatively conclude it has not been a bad year for our region..."
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Dimitar Bechev
Head of Sofia Office and Senior Policy Fellow European Council on Foreign Relations

     
ACTIVITIES IN BRIEF

Brussels policy dialogue ‘Unity in diversity’ discusses regional cooperation, Balkans and EU relations

Regional Cooperation Council honoured for extraordinary contribution to humanism with Sloboda award

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EVENTS CALENDAR

CULTURAL EVENTS IN SOUTH EAST EUROPE

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Published (from April 2010 to December 2013) by: Regional Cooperation Council Secretariat

Editor: Dinka Živalj
Contributor: Ratka Babić
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The views expressed in the articles/interviews are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the Regional Cooperation Council and its Secretariat.