Euro-Regionalism, New Concept of Crossborder Cooperation

(Vršac, August 21, 1999)

8.00a.m.
Departure from Belgrade

9.00-9.30
Registration of the participants

10.00-10.15
The opening of the workshop:
Radojica Mojsijev, coordinator of the Local Council of the European Movement in Serbia in Vršac and Danijel Pantic, coordinator of the project

10.30-2.00p.m
Plenary Discussion: Contemporary Regional Coopearation in Europe- Balkan Perspectives

Introductory presentations:

• Branislava Alendar: Regional Policy of the EU – Directions for Defining the Yugoslav Regional Development
• Dr Attila Pok, Secretary General of the European Movement in Hungary: Hungarian Regional Experience in Historical Perspective
• A representative of the Institute for Interculturalism from Temisoara: Romanian View of the Regional Cooperation in Banat

Exposures by the representatives of Serbian and Montenegrian regions on possibilities of regional cooperation:

• Šumadija: a representative from Kragujevac
• Sandžak: a representative from Novi Pazar
• Boka Kotorska: a representative from Kotor

2.00-3.30pm
Lunches

3.30-5.30
Discussion

Moderator: Danijel Pantic, Deputy Secretary General of the European Movement in Serbia: Regional Economic Cooperation on the Grass-Root Level

• Dr Predrag Jovanovic: Clusters – New Model for the Economic Development of Yugoslavia and its Integration into the Global Market
• Dr Duško Lopandic, expert on the issues of European integration: The Basis of Economic Concept of the European Union; The Level of Compatibility between the Yugoslav Law System and the System of the EU

5.30pm
Final conclusions and the common announcement

6.00pm
Cocktail and the exhibition of Banat NGOs (Hungary, Yugoslavia and Romania): The exchange of experiences and negotiations on new projects

8.00
Departure for Belgrade