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European Commission adopts Danube Strategy
Belgrade/Brussels,
9 December 2010
Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration Bozidar Djelic stated that the European Commission adopted the Danube Strategy today, adding that this document will be immensely useful for Serbian citizens and its economy.
Djelic told the Tanjug news agency that the Strategy was presented to a press conference in Brussels by EU Commissioner for Regional Policy Johannes Hahn, adding that after the adoption by the European Commission, the Strategy will be forwarded to the EU Council and the European Parliament.
He explained that the Danube Strategy, on the drafting of which Serbia worked for over a year, will attract considerable funds from the EU budget and will be very beneficial not only to 24 municipalities along the river, but also to another 80 nearby ones, which are linked with the rivers Sava, Tisa, Timok and Velika Morava.
Djelic said that Serbia earmarked €18.5 million for projects such as the reconstruction of the Golubac Fortress, infrastructure in Veliko Gradiste and other municipalities in the Danube basin.
He explained that Serbia and an EU member state applied to jointly coordinate projects in the field of infrastructure, economy of knowledge, tourism, media and safety. He recalled that the Danube strategy encompasses countries of the Danube basin and their immediate neighbours – Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Romania and Bulgaria, as EU member states, and non-EU member states Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Moldova and Ukraine.
Djelic said that it is expected that the EU Council and the European Parliament will formally adopt the Strategy around mid-2011, during Hungary's six-month EU presidency.
He explained that the Danube Strategy, on the drafting of which Serbia worked for over a year, will attract considerable funds from the EU budget and will be very beneficial not only to 24 municipalities along the river, but also to another 80 nearby ones, which are linked with the rivers Sava, Tisa, Timok and Velika Morava.
Djelic said that Serbia earmarked €18.5 million for projects such as the reconstruction of the Golubac Fortress, infrastructure in Veliko Gradiste and other municipalities in the Danube basin.
He explained that Serbia and an EU member state applied to jointly coordinate projects in the field of infrastructure, economy of knowledge, tourism, media and safety. He recalled that the Danube strategy encompasses countries of the Danube basin and their immediate neighbours – Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Romania and Bulgaria, as EU member states, and non-EU member states Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Moldova and Ukraine.
Djelic said that it is expected that the EU Council and the European Parliament will formally adopt the Strategy around mid-2011, during Hungary's six-month EU presidency.
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