The Ministry for the Environment, Climate and Energy Sector Baden-Württemberg is committed to the Macroregional Strategy of the EU for the Danube Region (EUSDR). Our goal of engaging in international cooperation is the creation of better environmental conditions in the Danube region. We want to help ensure that the countries of the Danube Region achieve the environmental objectives of the European Union in a short time. That is why we maintain a regular exchange of experience and knowledge transfer with partners and institutions in the Danube region.
Modern environmental technologies contribute to better energy and resource efficiency. In this way, a future-oriented environmental infrastructure can be created economically and sustainably. Baden-Württemberg wants to support the countries of the EUSDR. Baden-Württemberg also works with Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Moldova and Hungary in Joint Governmental Commissions.
Through many years of growing contacts in the course of the Danube Strategy, a large number of successful and promising projects have been established between Baden-Württemberg and the regions in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Regular visits by experts from the various regions here in Baden-Württemberg allow us to work even more closely and efficiently with the competent authorities and institutions in the regions of the Danube.
Particularly effective is the bioenergy partnership between Serbia and Baden-Württemberg, which was launched in 2014. In addition to the scientific and business cooperation, this partnership enables a lively dialogue and transfer of knowledge on the political level. This will improve the political framework for laws and funding programs and facilitate the establishment of bioenergy projects.
Objectives
The Macroregional Strategy of the EU for the Danube Region intends to make the Danube region more prosperous, to promote the implementation of European law in the participating countries, and, in this way, to bring candidate countries closer to EU membership.
Key issues
The EUSDR establishes four main key issue areas: "Connecting the Danube Region", "Protecting the Environment in the Danube Region", "Building Prosperity in the Danube Region" and "Strengthening the Danube Region".
The Ministry for the Environment, Climate and Energy Sector is a member of the priority area "Sustainable Energy", which is coordinated by Hungary and the Czech Republic.
Background
The European Council endorsed the Macroregional Strategy for the Danube Region on 24 June 2011. The strategy encompasses the entire Danube River Basin and a total of 14 countries: the nine EU Member States of Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany (Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria only), Hungary, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia, the EU candidate countries of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro und Serbia and Ukraine (the regions on the Danube only).
Contact
Johanna Bamberger
Europe, International Cooperation Section
Phone: +49 711 126-2663
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