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The Second Meeting of the Beneficiary Steering Committee of the joint European Union/Council of Europe programme “Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey 2019-2022”, will be held on 9 March 2021 starting from 09:00.

Opening remarks will be given by:

  • Tobias Flessenkemper, Head of the Council of Europe Office in Belgrade
  • Jadranka Joksimović, Minister of European Integration of Serbia
  • Ambassador Sem Fabrizi, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Serbia
  • Pilar Morales, Head of Programming Department, Office of the Directorate General of Programmes, Council of Europe

After opening remarks, two keynote speakers will address the participants:

  • Maja Popović, Minister of Justice of Serbia
  • Gordana Čomić, Minister of Human and Minority Rights and Social Dialogue of Serbia

In the meeting, key achievements of the Horizontal Facility actions implemented in Serbia in 2020, as well as plans for the future, will be presented to the media and beneficiary institutions.

Due to COVID-19 restrictions and limited space, media are invited to follow the event primarily through a video link, upon preliminary registration. Interested media representatives should register by sending an e-mail to [email protected] no later than 14:00 on March 8. Simultaneous interpretation will be provided.

The “Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey 2019-2022” is a joint initiative of the European Union and the Council of Europe that enables the beneficiaries to meet their reform agendas in the fields of human rights, rule of law and democracy and to comply with the European standards, including where relevant within the framework of the EU enlargement process.

The first phase of the Horizontal Facility programme ran from 2016 to 2019. The second phase of the programme is being conducted in the period between 2019 and 2022 and is continuously developing important initiatives in Serbia and in all the Western Balkans Beneficiaries including Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Montenegro, North Macedonia, as well as Turkey.

 Programme of the event

Contact:
Marija Simić  [email protected]  +381 63 60 13 37

*This designation is without prejudice to positions on status and is in line with UNSCR 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo Declaration of Independence.

Belgrade 5 March 2021
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