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NEWSLETTER - APRIL 2010 - MARITIME DIMENSION AT THE HEART OF EU2020 - WWW.CRPM.ORG |
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INTEGRATED MARITIME POLICY AT THE HEART OF THE EU 2020 STRATEGY 
Maria Damanaki is the European Commissioner in charge of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries. She attended the first public hearing at the European Parliament’s Seas and Coastal Areas Intergroup chaired by its President Corinne Lepage (ALDE-FR). The CPMR wishes to be involved in the implementation of the EU Integrated Maritime policy (IMP) and it is ready to work close to the Commission in order to offer its know-how on the ground to bring the IMP to the at the heart of the EU 2020 strategy. Commissioner Damanaki “counts on the regions’ own expertise for inspiration in policy making” and “trusts regional stakeholders will make their voices heard in support of the Commission's financing proposal for the period 2011 – 2013”. Enrico Mayrhofer: The first EU action plan on an integrated maritime policy has drawn to a close. How do you plan to involve the regions in the next step, and in carrying out the priorities that you have announced? Maria Damanaki: The first action plan has opened a still strongly
ongoing process, and indeed several of the actions foreseen in
the plan will have to be progressively implemented over the next
few years, while others simply require steady commitment (for
example integrated governance and stakeholder dialogue). These
are not one-off measures, but part of a culture change affecting
the way policy is developed and implemented... TONDO: MACRO REGIONAL SYNERGIES TO TACKLE GLOBALISATION 
On 13 April 2010 the Committee of the Regions (CoR) organised a Forum on Macro Regions to reaffirm that European integration also needs territorial cooperation. Many distinguished participants were present at the meeting, including the Commissioner for Regional Policy, Johannes Hahn, and various regional representatives from macro areas such as the Baltic, the North Sea, the Danube or the Mediterranean. The Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions (CPMR) has a vast experience in this field since it is the only organisation that is divided by geographical areas and not thematic ones. Gunn Marit Helgesen, County Mayor of Telemark in Norway, was there in her capacity as representative of the CPMR North Sea Commission, while Secretary General, Eleni Marianou, gave a general overview of the strategies that may constitute better opportunities for post-2013 cohesion policy. Renzo Tondo, President of the Italian Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia participated in the final debate alongside the vice-president of the Committee of the Regions, Ramón Luis Valcárcel Siso (Murcia – ES), who was also hosting the event. President Tondo, member of the CPMR, was there also in his capacity as President of the Alps Adriatic Working Community, an initiative which was launched way before the Berlin wall collapsed and whose main objective is cooperation between 12 Regions of Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Hungary and Croatia. During the Forum, the Alps Adriatic Community also sponsored a painting exhibition of artists who come from those countries with the objective of underlining that dialogue is also art... 
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