\t\t\t\tBilkent University Department of Political Science & Public Administration
\nJean Monnet Talk Series announces:<\/p>\n
Seminar:
\n“The European Union and the Baltic Sea Region: Prospects of Regional
\nCooperation”
\nThursday, 13 March 2014, 12:30-14:30
\nA-130 (Seminar Room)<\/p>\n
by Abstract: The EU and the Baltic Sea region – today the Baltic Sea region exists almost Bilkent University Department of Political Science & Public Administration Jean Monnet Talk Series announces: Seminar: “The European Union and the Baltic Sea Region: Prospects of Regional Cooperation” Thursday, 13 March 2014, 12:30-14:30 A-130 (Seminar Room) by Dr. Heiko P\u00e4\u00e4bo Head, Centre for Baltic Studies University of Tartu heiko.paabo@ut.ee Abstract: The EU and the Baltic Sea\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,51,54,81,82,102,118],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-baltic-sea","tag-estonia","tag-european-union","tag-latvia","tag-lithuania","tag-paabo","tag-russia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanmonnet.pols.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanmonnet.pols.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanmonnet.pols.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanmonnet.pols.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanmonnet.pols.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanmonnet.pols.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanmonnet.pols.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanmonnet.pols.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanmonnet.pols.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDr. Heiko P\u00e4\u00e4bo
\nHead, Centre for Baltic Studies
\nUniversity of Tartu
\nheiko.paabo@ut.ee<\/a><\/p>\n
\nas the EU internal sea, except few Russian coastal areas (Kaliningrad oblast
\nand surroundings of St Petersburg). The regional cooperation started here
\nalready in early 1990s by establishing the Council of the Baltic Sea States.
\nAlso the EU enlargement included gradually more and more countries from the
\nregion, in 1995 Sweden and Finland, in 2004 Poland, Estonia, Latvia and
\nLithuania. The Baltic Sea region is considered as one of the most dynamic
\nand fastest developing regions in the EU. In 2009 European Council adopted
\nthe EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region as the first EU macro-regional
\nstrategy. It aims to ‘ to increase the levels of environmental
\nsustainability, prosperity, accessibility and attractiveness and safety and
\nsecurity’ of the Baltic Sea region. The lecture will give brief overview of
\nthe development of the region and also to discuss the particular interest of
\ndifferent countries in the context of regional cooperation as well in the
\ncontext of the EU.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"