Greener, safer and more social: zooming on cooperation in the east

We continue our journey to the eastern borders, this time zooming in on three Interreg NEXT programmes grouped around Romania: Romania – Ukraine, Romania – the Republic of Moldova and Hungary-Slovakia-Romania-Ukraine. The programmes are close not only geographically, but also in the choice of their strategic objectives and priorities for the new programming period. Discover […]

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Environment: a change of perspective at regional level

Nowadays we continually learn about the environment, and mostly in dramatic terms. We are confronted with increasingly frequent environmental disasters, we face the insufficient commitments of various countries on helping to lower the level of CO2 or reducing the invasion of plastic and micro-plastic into our seas and ecosystems, even inside our bodies. We all […]

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The Eastern partners journey towards a greener neighbourhood and more

2022 has ended with the great news on the adoption of the seven active Interreg NEXT programmes. Now it’s time to get to know them better. Our journey starts by taking a closer look at two programmes of the Interreg NEXT family that can be fairly considered as “giants” of CBC in the east, one […]

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Cross-border commuting: the challenges of labour markets across European countries

European cross-border regions are laboratories of European Integration. Cross-border labour markets enhance citizens’ access to wider job opportunities, while employers can reach a wider pool of skills. All this while allowing individuals to keep on living on the territories they consider home, with much reduced social costs. However, cross-border commuting – working and residing on […]

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Seven objectives for seven new programmes

With the adoption of the two sea basin programmes last week, the seven active Interreg NEXT programmes have now been approved! Considering the difficulties faced by our community during 2022, this is a major achievement that rewards the efforts of all concerned stakeholders and sets the grounds for an early set up and start of […]

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The x-ray photography of the ENI CBC world

Which is the average project duration? How are lead partners distributed throughout territories? Which is the average budget per thematic cluster and how is it distributed across geographical areas? To these and many more questions a new TESIM publication is ready to answer, thanks to a detailed analysis of the 915 projects financed through cross-border […]

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Meeting notes

The 7th Consultation and Coordination Group meeting of ENI CBC programmes took place in Brussels on 23-24 November 2022. The meeting gathered both onsite and online over 90 participants, including representatives of programme bodies, DG REGIO, DG NEAR, EEAS, Interact and TESIM. During both days, and in addition to the plenary sessions, bilateral meetings were […]

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