EIRP Proceedings, Vol 6 (2011)

Abstract

At the initiative of Romania and Austria at the end of 2010, the European Union has finalized the strategy for the Danube Region, a regional development model at European level. Danube strategy is a national strategy of the EU to which they are invited to attend also the third countries of the riverside. It will be implemented starting with the first half of 2011 and it will be structured along three primary axes: connectivity, environmental protection and socio-economic development, patterned after the EU Strategy for Baltic Sea region. The main challenge for Romania has been and it should be its keeping among the main promoters of the initiative of creating and implementing a Strategy and the achievement, according to the Action Plan, of as many priority projects on all three axes aiming at also developing the administrative capacity and better governance.