In Timisoara (Jul 18, 2009), Serbian, Romanian, and Hungarian foreign ministers, Vuk Jeremic, Christian Diaconescu and Peter Balasz respectively, discussed the European integration of the Balkan countries, cross-border projects, the Nabucco pipeline and the EU strategy for the Danube.
Cooperation of the tangential regions of the three countries sends an important message to Europe and it is extremely important for five million people who live in this area, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Balasz told the press conference. Balasz mentioned projects such as the joint industrial park and expansion of trans-European transport and energy supply networks in the region.
The Euro-regional cooperation may become a model for the period following Serbia’s EU integration, said Balasz. He pointed that Hungary and Romania could jointly mobilize EU funds for Serbia and added that cooperation of the two EU member states and their neighbour is ideal from the EU point of view.
The Serbia-Romania-Hungary trilateral was launched in Belgrade in May 2003 at the meeting of foreign ministers of the three countries, who are having their fourth gathering on Saturday.
On Monday (Jul 13, 2009), the EU’s "pipeline politics" took another step forward with the signing in Turkey's capital, Ankara, of an agreement to build a new, 3,300-kilometre gas pipeline called Nabucco, running between eastern Turkey and Vienna, Austria.
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