The CONCORD working group on Enlargement, Pre-Accession and Neighbourhood (EPAN), which is convened by TRIALOG, met in Vienna for one of its twice-yearly full working group meetings at the beginning of March 2010. The group shared information about initiatives undertaken at the national and European level related to EPAN focus countries as well as plans related to current and upcoming EU presidencies and CONCORD priorities for this year. The group divided into subgroups in order to plan in more detail upcoming events related to the Eastern neighbourhood, Southern neighbourhood and pre-accession area of the Western Balkans and Turkey.
As well as representatives from old and new member states, the group was happy to welcome representatives from candidate countries Croatia and Turkey, who were able to bring their expertise of their own countries to the discussions.
The meeting was planned to take place right before the regional workshop of the open Forum on CSO Development Effectiveness that focused on non-EU European countries, largely overlapping with the EPAN countries of interest. A handful of members attended both meetings. EPAN meeting minutes are available on the CONCORD extranet. For more information please contact Rebecca Steel at trialog@concordeurope.org.
Information provided by Rebecca Steel-Jasińska, TRIALOG
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