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EU Danube region strategy can create jobs

The European Union's Strategy for the Danube Region offers an opportunity for the creation of new jobs and also for forging partnerships between the local authorities in Romania and in the neighbouring states, national project coordinator Viorel Ardeleanu told a seminar hosted by the Foreign Affairs Ministry on Friday.

'It is obvious that such a strategy, in which we plan to use new technologies, can create new jobs. A sustainable development strategy of an entire area adjacent to the Danube can bring more jobs than if we implemented classic technologies or if we chose to promote a mere development of what we have now', plenipotentiary Minister Ardeleanu said.

On the cooperation with the neighbours, he stressed that partnerships between various entities can be forged on the basis of the strategy, partnerships between Romanian local authorities and the local authorities in other states - cooperation networks between universities and excellence centres.

State Secretary for European affairs at the Foreign Ministry Bogdan Mazuru stressed that the European Council, in last June, had sent a political message to the EU member states and institutions to back the initiative and had called on the European Commission to draw up a EU Strategy for the Danube Region by end-2010.

Thus, the Commission by discussing with the interested states in the region, proposed to build the strategy on three priority axes as follows: connectivity - with emphasis on the river's role of a connector in the trans-European transport network TEN-T and of an important waterway; and social-economic development.

'Our institution has taken upon itself the role of a national coordinator of the strategy and therefore it organises the inter-ministerial activity of the working group that analyses and proposes the national priorities related to the Danube Strategy. They will be included in a national outline document, that will look into the current needs of the Danube River regions and will propose goals, actions and priority areas for supporting sustainable development and economic growth in the area', Mazuru said. He invited the participants - Danube local public authorities, county councils, town halls and governmental officials - to take part in the national debate on this topic and to get involved in finding solutions to improve the dialogue between the governmental and local authorities in order to reach a national consensus on the needs for development of the Danube region.

The European Council from June 2009 tasked the European Commission with working out a future draft EU Strategy for the Danube Region by the end of 2010. The project relies on a Romanian-Austrian initiative and it is aimed at boosting the coherence of the programmes and projects financed by the EU and national funds that are implemented in the region.

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