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A summer seminar for young Bulgarian and Romanian
public servants Preparation for EU Accession was held on
September 17 - 23, 2001. The seminar took place for three days in Albena, Bulgaria, and two days in Mangalia, Romania, and was
organized by the Economic Policy Institute in Sofia in cooperation with
the Eurisc Foundation in Bucharest within the joint
project of the Bertelsmann Foundation and the World Bank Towards
European Integration - Network for Integration of Central and
Eastern European Countries into the European Union. The seminar
was also supported by the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The event focused on specific issues and the participants elaborated on opportunities and challenges posed by the negotiations process, shared by Bulgaria and Romania, in order to acquire knowledge from domestic and foreign experts and professionals and find and transfer best practice solutions. The initiative proved to be an excellent instrument to facilitate discussions and create an environment for dialogue and networking - in both formal and unofficial way.
The agenda of the seminar included the following main
topics:
- Accession Negotiations: Current State and Future Agenda
- The Nice Summit and the Consequences for an Enlarged EU
- Economic Issues of EU Enlargement
- Eastern Enlargement and Security Issues
- Energy Efficiency and the Renewable Energy in the Context of the Environmental Friendly Use of Energy
- Minorities and Labor Migration
- European and National Identity
- The Constitutional Debate - Models of the Future Enlarged EU
The seminar included a number of presentations by Bulgarian and
Romanian representatives as well as experts from other European
countries including H.E. Dr. Georg Potika, Ambassador of
Republic of Austria in Bulgaria; Mr. Martin Kremer from the
Planning Staff, Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany;
Mr. Petr Drulak from the Institute of
International Relations in Prague, Czech Republic; Mr. Antti
Uusi-Hakala, Director of Regional Development, Ministry of
Interior of Finland; Mr. Panagiotis Liargovas, Lecturer
in the University of Thessaly and Research Fellow to the Hellenic Foundation
for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), Greece; Prof.
Andras Inotai, General Director, Institut for World Economics,
Hungarian
Academy of Sciences; Mr. Wim van Meurs and Mr. Martin
Brusis from the Center for Applied Policy Research in Munich, Germany;
Mr. Thomas Fischer, Director, Governance Studies, Bertelsmann
Foundation, Germany; Ms. Maya Koteva, Economic Advisor,
Delegation of the
European Commission to Bulgaria; Mr. Krassimir Nikolov,
Center for European Studies and
Information, Bulgaria; Mr. Dan Oprescu, Chief, National
Office for Roma, Romania, etc.
Mr. Dimitar Markov from the Law Program of the Center for the Study of Democracy and Ms.
Daniela Heimerl from the Centre for Research and Documentation
on the former USSR, Eastern Europe and China (CEDUCEE), France,
made presentations on the cross-border cooperation in the field of
Customs Control with a special focus on combating cross-border
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