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Promoting Synergies Across Regions This year the International Centre for Black Sea Studies (ICBSS) is celebrating its tenth year of existence. As a result, apart from the usual pause for reflection (something that is almost impossible to do) regarding its achievements over the last decade, the ICBSS has been working hard planning a number of activities for 2008. Read more...
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 Round-table discussion with Prof. Mark Entin, Director, European Studies Institute and Institute of European Law, MGIMO University, Moscow and Dr. Fraser Cameron, Director, EU-Russia Centre, Brussels, on “EU-Russia Relations”, Athens, 15 September 2008.
10 Years Promoting Synergies Across Regions: check the ICBSS' anniversary year's key events here.
First International Symposium on “The Wider Black Sea Area in Perspective” a big success! Read more…
The OECD Development Centre, with the support of the Governments of Greece, Romania and Turkey, and of the ICBSS, has published the first Black Sea and Central Asian Economic Outlook: Promoting Work and Well Being. The book is also published in French under the title: Mer Noire et Asie Centrale: Promouvoir le Travail et le Bien – Etre.
On the occasion of its 10-year anniversary the ICBSS in collaboration with the Political and Economic Quarterly Review Diethnis kai Europaiki Politiki, published a special thematic “The Black Sea: An Emerging Region”, Issue 10, April-June 2008, pp. 61-194 (in Greek only)
THE ICBSS IN THE MEDIA
 Opinion: "The Rise of a Multipolar World?", by Dimitrios Triantaphyllou, H Avgi, 31 August 2008 (in Greek only)
Media coverage: "Could BSEC Incorporate a Caucasian Alliance?", Turkish Daily News, 29 August 2008.
Media coverage: "When Energy Diplomacy Becomes a Tool for Development", H Rodiaki, 6 July 2008 (in Greek only)
Media coverage: "The Black Sea and its Importance", Agelioforos tis Kyriakis, 29 June 2008 (in Greek only)
ICBSS EVENTS
Third ICBSS Annual Conference focusing on “The Wider Black Sea Area and the Great Energy Game”, held in Athens, 25 June 2008 (BSEC Day). To view the event's webcast click  here. Read more…
Tedo Japaridze attends official launching event of first Black Sea and Central Asian Economic Outlook (BSECAO) report The Black Sea and Central Asia: Promoting Work and Well Being by the OECD Development Centre, Bucharest, 23 June 2008. The event was hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania, the Ministry of Labour, Family and Equal Opportunities of Romania and the OECD Development Centre, and sponsored by the ERSTE Group. The BSECAO project counts with the support of the ICBSS.
George Bonas and Dimitris Filippidis participants in the meeting of the Management Board of the EU co-funded and ICBSS coordinated project “S&T International Cooperation Network for Eastern European and Central Asian countries” (IncoNet EECA), organised by the International Bureau of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Science, Bonn, 19 June 2008.
George Bonas and Dimitris Filippidis participants at the meeting of Coordinators of Projects Targeting Eastern European and Central Asian Countries organised by the International Bureau of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Science, Bonn, 18 June 2008. The meeting took place in the context of the EU co-funded and ICBSS coordinated project “S&T International Cooperation Network for Eastern European and Central Asian countries” (IncoNet EECA).
Panagiota Manoli speaker at International Conference on “Regional Development Challenges of EU and Border Regions in the Context of the Interaction between the EU and Countries of its Immediate ‘Neighbourhood’”, co-organised by the University of Tartu Institute of Government Studies and Eurocollege, Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation, the ICBSS, the Institute of Advanced Studies and the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute, held in Tartu, Estonia, on 16-17 June 2008.
ICBSS PUBLICATIONS
ICBSS Policy Brief No. 7, May 2008, The European Union and the Black Sea Region: The New Eastern Frontiers and Europeanisation, by Alexandros Yannis, now available for download.
ICBSS Policy Brief No. 6, May 2008, Black Sea Regional Policy Approach: A Potential Contributor to European Energy Security, by Burcu Gultekin-Punsmann, now available for download.
Xenophon Paper No. 5, April 2008, Regional Cooperation in the Black Sea Area in the Context of EU-Russia Relations, by Nadia Alexandrova-Arbatova, now available for download.
ICBSS Black Sea Monitor No. 7, April 2008 is now available for download.
THE ICBSS AND THE BSEC
Ioannis Stribis attends Meeting of the Working Group on Organisational Matters, Istanbul, 10-11 July 2008.
Ioannis Stribis attends Meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Development of the Motorways of the Sea in the BSEC Region, Istanbul, 1-2 July 2008.
Dimitrios Triantaphyllou attends Meeting of the Presidents of Parliaments of the PABSEC Member Countries –the Parliamentary Summit– on “Achievements and Prospects of Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation in the Wider Black Sea Area” and the 31st Plenary Session of the PABSEC General Assembly (Statement) , Kavouri, Greece, 9-11 June 2008.
ICBSS NETWORKING
Tedo Japaridze speaker at Closed Meeting on “Security Risks and Dilemmas in the Wider Black Sea Region: Back to ‘Realpolitik’ or Going Through Crunch Time?” co-organised by the Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI) and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Rome, 21 July 2008.
Ioannis Stribis speaker at the 5th DRC (Danube Rectors’ Conference) Summer School on Regional Co-operation “Changing Dynamics of the Danubian Region - New Neighbourhood Policy in the EU”, organised by IDResearch Ltd., IDM Austria, and Danube University Krems, Krems, Austria, 29 June - 6 July 2008.
Dimitrios Triantaphyllou speaker on “Promoting Synergies between the European Union and the Wider Black Sea Area” at the 2008 General Assembly Meeting of the Balkan and Black Sea Regional Commission (BBSRC) of the Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions of Europe (CPMR), Rhodes, 26 June 2008.
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