Federica Mogherini, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the Commission, Johannes Hahn Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, and Violeta Bulc, Commissioner for Transport, will participate at the 2017 Western Balkans Summit which will take place tomorrow 12 July in Trieste, Italy.
The Summit will be an opportunity to discuss concrete avenues to strengthen regional cooperation on connectivity, regional economic integration, youth empowerment and people-to-people contacts to further advancing the European Union integration perspective of the region. The High Representative/Vice-President Mogherini will represent the EU at the meeting with the Heads of State or Government. Commissioner Hahn will attend various side events, including the meeting of Foreign Ministers as well as the EU – Western Balkans Youth Forum, the Business Forum and the Civil Society Forum, where he will deliver key-note speeches. Commissioner Bulc will participate at the meetings of Economic Development as well as Transport Ministers and will, together with Mogherini and Hahn, also be at the signing ceremony of the Transport Community Treaty. A full press release is available online, as is a factsheet “EU engagement in the Western Balkans“. Photos and video of the mission will be on EbS. Ahead of the Summit, CommissionerBulc will this evening take part in a special multinational Citizens’ Dialogue in Goriza, on the border between Italy and Slovenia.
