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German-Nordic-Baltic Forum 2014

On 7th and 8th July 2014 the sixth German-Nordic-Baltic-Forum took place in the facil­ities of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia in Riga. The conference was entitled “Upgrading the German-Nordic-Baltic Partnership in the EU: Common Values, Mutual Interests and New Challenges” and brought together over 60 experts from science and politics coming from the three Baltic States, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Germany.

On this occasion the forum highlighted current topics on the European agenda perspec­tives for further steps of European cooper­ation. The discussion focussed on the results of the European Elections 2014, the review of the Europe 2020 Strategy and in light of the current devel­op­ments in the EU’s direct neigh­bourhood on the EU’s role as global actor and crisis manager as well as on the perspec­tives of the Eastern Partnership. The second day of the forum was opened by the Latvian State Secretary Andrejs Pilde­goviĉs and Minister of State for Europe at the German Federal Foreign Office Michael Roth. In their key-note speeches they under­lined European political prior­ities and put emphasis on the oppor­tu­nities for a closer German-Nordic-Baltic partnership.

The German-Nordic-Baltic Forums was organised in cooper­ation with Latvian Institute of Inter­na­tional Affairs and with financial and personnel support by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia, the German Federal Foreign Office and the German Embassy to the Latvian Republic in Riga.

Programme

Speech of Michael Roth, Minister of State for Europe at the German Federal Foreign Office

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