In 2020 CESCI informed firstly Mr Tibor Bial, the Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Budapest on the proposal regarding the legal accessibility mechanism of the Visegrad Countries. He welcomed the idea and he organised a meeting of the ambassadors of the three countries and the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Due to the pandemic, the meeting could not take place, it had to be postponed.
Within the framework of the current project, CESCI wanted to promote the process through the organisation of a forum and a conference. The two events obtain timely relevance by the adoption of the ECBM Regulation, and the closure of the B-Solutions project, both designed to take place in the second part of 2021, during the Slovenian presidency. The latter one gives an opportunity to withdraw a kind of balance, but it can also provide important lessons for the functioning of the mechanism to be established between the Visegrad countries.
The forum (in a form of a round-table discussion) is to be held with the participation of the three ambassadors and the representatives of the Hungarian Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The invited speakers of the conference are the participants of the European Commission (ECBM Regulation), the Association of European Border Regions (B-Solutions) and the regional actors implementing B-Solutions case studies. The main mission of the conference is to provide ammunition for the development of the Visegrad Four level mechanism.
The results of the event will be summarised in a professional document to be handed to the ministries of justice and foreign affairs and the relevant parliamentary committees of the four countries.
More information on the event’s website The report on the event can be read hereThe report prepared for the European Commission can be downloaded by clicking on the cover page:
