EU Strategy for the Danube Region

Priority areas

The Danube Region Strategy focuses on eleven priority areas. 

The countries and regions that will act as coordinators for each priority area were announced in February 2011 (see table below).

 

Priority areas and coordinating countries :

1) To improve mobility and intermodality (Inland waterways : Austria - Romania ; Rail, road and air : Slovenia - Serbia (Interest: Ukraine)

2) To encourage more sustainable energy (Hungary - Czech Republic)

3) To promote culture and tourism, people to people contacts (Bulgaria - Romania)

4) To restore and maintain the quality of waters (Hungary - Slovakia)

5) To manage environmental risks (Hungary - Romania)

6) To preserve biodiversity, landscapes and the quality of air and soils (Germany (Bavaria) - Croatia)

7) To develop the knowledge society :research, education and ICT (Slovakia - Serbia)

8) To support the competitiveness of enterprises (Germany (Baden-Württemberg) - Croatia)

9) To invest in people and skills (Austria - Moldova)

10) To step up institutional capacity and cooperation (Austria (Vienna) - Slovenia)

11) To work together to tackle security and organised crime (Germany - Bulgaria)