EU Strategy for the Danube Region
EU Strategy for the Danube Region — The European Union's macro-regional strategy for the Danube region, is a long-term policy of the European Union to address the problems of the Danube macro-region. Adopted by the European Commission on 8 December 2011, in 2011 supported by the European Parliament and the Council of the EU. Developed taking into account the experience of the Baltic Strategy (made possible by the positive results of the latter). Terms. Tasks. According to the strategy, 14 countries of the Danube basin by 2020 should implement about 200  projects related to four main areas: Participants. Nine EU member states are involved in the work of the Danube Strategy: and five non-EU countries: Danube Strategy and Ukraine. The Ukrainian part of the Danube region covers an area of 68.1 thousand square kilometers, with a total population of 5.9 million people and is represented by four areas, partly located in the Danube basin. All regions are border, have significant climatic and landscape features, are characterized by the presence of compact ethnic enclaves. In order to strengthen the economic, scientific, technical, investment, tourism and cultural potential of the Ukrainian regions  along the Danube, a Memorandum of Cooperation was signed within the framework of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region. On January 30, 2013, the First Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine Anatoliy Maksyuta was appointed as the coordinator of Ukraine's activities in the implementation of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region. Since 2015, they have been actively involved in European integration processes, cross-border and regional programs as partners in the Association of Local Governments "EU Strategy for the Danube Region" (Director – Yuri Maslov). In 2017, the Odesa Oblast Council approved a Perspective Action  Plan for the implementation of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region in the Odesa region. In order to timely identify and solve environmental problems in the Danube basin and adjacent territories and reservoirs, to achieve a safe state of the environment by monitoring the state of water, soil and air, the Center for Sustainable Development and Environmental Research of the Danube region was established. On July 9, 2019, the Association of United Territorial Communities and the Association of Local Self-Government Bodies "EU Strategy for the Danube Region" signed a memorandum of cooperation. EU Strategy for the Danube Region