Barents cooperation update
Kolarctic ENPI CBC is one of the EU ENPI programmes that offer financing to projects on the external borders of the EU.
Ari Sirén took up his position as the Head of the International Barents Secretariat January 16, 2012. He has a long career in the Finnish Foreign Service starting in 1974, including service in Russia, Poland, China and the Check Republic.
Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Governors meet in Kiruna in October 2011.
The growing global demand for raw materials makes the future look very bright for the Barents Region, said Swedish Minister of Trade, Ewa Bjorling, when speaking at the 5th Barents Parliamentarian Conference in Luleå, May 18, 2011.
18-20 May, Nordic and Russian parliamentarians from the whole Barents Region meet in Kulturens hus in Luleå, Sweden, attending the "Fifth Parliamentary Barents Conference". Main topics on the agenda to be discussed are issues concerning the natural environment/sustainable development, commerce, infrastructural development and entrepreneurship - matters of common interest amongst the countries and the regions. The Swedish Parliament is hosting the conference, and Mr Per Westerberg, Speaker of the Swedish Parliament, will make an opening speech on May 19. Swedish Minister Ewa Björling is also making an opening speech on May 19, as a representative for Sweden's chairmanship of the Barents Euro-Arctic Council.
The Barents Region is immensely rich in natural resources and is unique internationally in raw materials deposits of which many remain untouched and are crucial for production of modern technology. There are high level skills and refining capacity in the region as mining is no longer simple in terms of technology, but there are needs for investments in infrastructure and technology, said Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Bildt, in the European Parliament when he spoke at the seminar The Barents Region -a European region of strategic importance in the field of non-energy resources, (March 15).
Archangelsk 30 November-2 December 2010 With the support from the Declaration of the Barents Euro-Arctic Council Ministers of Environment (Tromsö, 2010), the Subgroup on Water Issues of the Barents Working Group on Environment in close cooperation with the Archangelsk Region Government arranged a three day event starting with an International Conference on “Water Resources Management in the Barents Region”. The Conference gathered about 90 participants, including many experts from Norway, Finland and Sweden, and was followed by thematic workshops and discussions for project development.


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