Art of Cooperation

Háttér

Legal obstacles in EU

November 14. 14.00 – 15.30

The session aims to present existing good practices and models of cross-border management of persisting legal and administrative obstacles. The speakers will present the Benelux and the Nordic models and the project “#ACCESS – Promotion of legal accessibility across the Slovak-Hungarian border” implemented by CESCI and CESCI Carpathia and co-financed by the Slovakia-Hungary Interreg VI-A programme.

Moderator: Melinda Istenes-Benczi PhD, International Relations Coordinator of CESCI

  • Frans Weekers, Secretary General of the Benelux Union (tbc)
  • Sandra Forsén, Senior Adviser of the Freedom of Movement Council of the Nordic Council of Ministers
  • Martin Unfried, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Transnational and Euregional Cross border Cooperation and Mobility / ITEM at the Maastricht University
  • Katalin Fekete, Senior Legal Adviser, CESCI

Towards a new European mechanism

November 14. 16.00 – 17.30

The session aims to give an overview of the efforts made by the European Commission and the EU presidencies to eliminate the legal and administrative obstacles, including the Cross-Border Review project and the Communication “Boosting Growth and Cohesion in EU Border Regions”, the Border Focal Point, the b-solutions initiative, the Interreg Specific Objective 1, and the proposal on a mechanism facilitating cross-border solutions, etc. The speakers will also reflect on the future perspectives of the FCBS proposal.

Moderator: Katalin Fekete, Senior Legal Adviser of CESCI

  • Sławomir Tokarski, Director of the DG REGIO of the European Commission
  • Caitriona Mullan, Senior Expert of the AEBR
  • Jean Peyrony, Director General of the Mission Opérationnelle Transfrontalière
  • Rafał Baliński, head of department, Ministry of Funds and Regional Policy of Poland

Azt eseményre itt tud regisztrálni.

Időpont

Kapcsolat a szervezőkhöz

Helyszín

Budapest, downtown (exact venue will be communicated later)