21-22 January 2010

Chairman of the Baltic Development Forum, Uffe Ellemann-Jensen met the three Baltic Prime Ministers in Mežotne Palace

Uffe Ellemann-Jensen was key-note speaker at the informal meeting of the three Baltic Prime Ministers, Valdis Dombrovskis of Latvia (host), Andrus Ansip of Estonia and Andrius Kubilius of Lithuania in Mežotne Palace, Latvia, 21-22 January.

read 18 January 2010

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read 17 December 2009

Heinrich Böll Foundation organised a Dinner Debate in Copenhagen in parallel with the COP 15: Baltic Development Forum was invited as speaker to present regional energy study.

13 December 2009, Baltic Development Forum’s Director Hans Brask was invited by the Heinrich Böll Stiftung (the Green Political Foundation) as speaker to a High-Level Dinner Debate on Regional Approaches to reduce CO2 emissions: The European Community for Renewable Energy & How the Baltic Sea Region Can Lead the Way to present regional energy study.

read 16 December 2009

Baltic Development Forum wishes Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Baltic Development Forum wishes all our members, partners and friends of our network a wonderful Christmas season and a prosperous 2010. 2009 has been a difficult year for the Baltic Sea Region in terms of economic growth but politically there are many new hopes for creating a more integrated, prosperous and modern region.

read 14 December 2009

Energy Scenario Analyses with the Balmorel model

Baltic Development Forum has the pleasure of inviting energy experts from the Baltic Sea Region to a one week introductory course on “Energy Scenario Analyses with the Balmorel model”. The course is organised in cooperation with the consultancy company Ea Energy Analyses, and will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark form 25th until 29th January 2010.

read 15 December 2009

Northern Dimension Business Council – a new platform for dialogue with Russian business

When regional initiatives come from Russian partners - and even from Russian business community in our region - everyone should pay attention. The new Northern Dimension Business Council (NDBC) has been established and two co-chairmen have been appointed: Mr. Tapio Kuula (CEO of Fortum) and Mr. Alexey Mordashov (CEO of Severstal). BDF welcomes strongly this new initiative.

read 16 December 2009

BDF makes a commitment before the Baltic Sea Action Summit

Time is for action! And action should be the code word among all countries, governments, littoral regions, cities, municipalities, business communities and NGOs around the Baltic Sea. After a long period of time of identifying the problems, the root causes and the needed strategies time is now for implementing recommendations and policy actions for saving the Baltic Sea – one of the most polluted seas in the world.

read 15 December 2010

Baltic Development Forum Summit 2010: Reaching new heights!

The 12th Baltic Development Forum Summit is very pleased to come to Vilnius 1-2 June 2010 and to invite our regional network of decision-makers to a true regional “Davos”-gathering.

read 7 December 2009

BaltMet Promo promotes the entire Baltic Sea Region in global markets

For the first time the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) metropolises will join forces in promoting the entire region in global markets through three concrete pilots. The chosen fields for pilot cases are tourism, talent and direct foreign investments.

read 7 December 2009

COP 15 statement: neighbours and regions matter!

Hopefully the COP 15 Summit in Copenhagen will come very far in setting ambitious and binding targets on green house gas reductions that will have to be implemented by nations. The EU is very well prepared in turning the forthcoming targets into national implementation plans.

read 24 November 2009

Pollution of the Baltic Sea - the Baltic Sea Action Summit to address the problem

The Baltic Sea Action Summit to take place in Helsinki on 10 February 2010 invites Heads of Governments, private companies, business leaders and NGOs to contribute to the carrying out the actions needed to restore the status of the Baltic Sea.

read 18 November 2009

BDF Summit 2009 Evaluation

The general feedback from the participants is very positive.

read 2 November 2009

Congratulations on the adoption of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region!

As foreseen, the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region was adopted at the European Council meeting in Brussels on 29-30 October.

read 26 October 2009

The BCCA Policy Forecast Report

The Baltic Sea Chambers of Commerce Association presented results of a survey of the participants of the Baltic Development Forum Summit 2009.

read 19 October 2009

"Hansa Reinvented" conference on 29-30 October in Groningen

Baltic Development Forum is proud to be a strategic partner to the “Hansa Reinvented”conference, to be held in Groningen, the Netherlands, on 29-30 October 2009.

read 16 October 2009

Uffe Ellemann-Jensen's speech at the BSSSC conference in Ringsted

Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, Chairman of the Baltic Development Forum, participated as key-note speaker in the BSSSC Conference 2009.

read 13 October 2009

Conclusions BDF Summit 2009

Please consult the Conclusions of the 11th BDF Summit held on 5-6 October 2009 in Stockholm under the headline Boosting Top of Europe.

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