EUSAIR - Final Report

• The Presidency facilitated, financially supported and initiated various forms of
youth engagement: from Climate Change Challenges in the educational process
to entrepreneurial thinking. National competitions (POPRI) for best entrepreneurial
ideas took place in all EUSAIR countries – and we will be awarding
the best ideas of tomorrow, well, literally tomorrow – on this same stage!
• And yes, for the first time we will be recognizing the efforts of our
partners in the development of Macro-regional Strategies to contribute
to the common good, by awarding Windmills of Excellence.
Dear colleagues and partners, I started with our openness – so let me also
conclude with it. In less than two months, Slovenia will be presiding over the
EU Council. We are teamed with two member states, Germany and Portugal,
which links our Mediterranean heritage with the horizons of northern seas and
the Atlantic Ocean. What better opportunity to broaden our Macro-regional
perspectives to the European scale!
Our best practices can become our common policies, our local challenges
can develop stronger tools to find solutions – and our regional legacies and
heritage will once again be presented and, hopefully, accessible to the whole
European family. When you are in the company of such tourist destinations as
our members, our lessons and the openness of our borders and doors will be
an important message of a serious, responsible post-covid recovery. Although
I regret that we were unable to gather here in person on the Slovene coast,
I sincerely hope that when our friends from Albania close the next Presidency,
their Presidency, the beauty of our shared sea and the fresh breeze of Mediterranean
air will remind us all what a wonderful part of the world we live in.
Let us take care of the coasts of our shared sea, let us work for the common
good of our citizens, united in a strong and smart European Union.
Thank you.
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