Development cooperation in the post-2004 EU member States - The role of LRA

The seminar took place in Bucharest on 12 March 2010 and focused on the role of local and regional authorities in cooperation for development within those countries having joined the EU after 2004. This role is relatively new for the local authorities of these central and oriental European States. Nonetheless these local/regional bodies have a major role to play in raising citizens’ awareness on development issues. 

Representatives of Romanian, Latvian and Estonian local/regional bodies highlighted their experiences in terms of cooperation with their Maldivian, Ukrainian and Georgian counterparts.  They then called for the European Commission to establish more solid links between its development policies and its neighbouring policies.   

Documents : 

- Download the programme of the seminar, and an article published in the DEEEP Newsletter -Developing Europeans Engagement for the Eradication of Poverty -  April 2010