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17 July 2014 The delegation of the European Integration Committee at the COSAC meeting in Rome
Monday, 21 July 2014
European Integration Committee Delegation Takes Part in COSAC Meeting in Rome
As part of the parliamentary dimension of Italy’s Presidency of the European Union, on 17 and 18 July 2014 Rome hosted the meeting of the chairpersons of parliamentary committees for union affairs of EU member states – COSAC. The meeting was attended by the chairpersons and members of parliamentary committees for union affairs of EU member states, and, as observers, by the chairpersons and members of the European integration Committees of candidate states.
European Integration Committee members Laszlo Varga, Committee Deputy Chairman, and Vesna Markovic, Committee member, took part in the meeting.
The representatives of the Italian Government presented the priorities of the Italian Presidency of the European Union: economic growth and reduction of the unemployment rate, increased inclusion of the citizens in EU decision-making processes and an increase in the EU’s global role, within which Italy finds EU enlargement very important. They underlined that Italy endorses Serbia’s integration and expects chapter 32 to be opened during the Italian Presidency.
The meeting also dealt with the use of European Structural and Investment Funds 2014-2020. In his address, Laszlo Varga stressed that Serbia was ready to cooperate with its neighbours, via joint IPA projects, on remedying the impact of the May 2014 floods and use the relief funds the European Union extended Serbia via the IPA funds transparently. He thanked the EU and its member states for their solidarity and the aid collected at the donor conference in Brussels on 16 July 2014.
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11.00 - sitting of the Defence and Internal Affairs Committee (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 2)
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11.00 - sitting of the of the Committee on Education, Science, Technological Development and the Information Society (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 4)
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11.00 - judges elected to judicial office for the first time take the oath of office before the National Assembly Speaker (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Small Hall)
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11.30 - the National Assembly Speaker meets with the Ukrainian Ambassador (National Assembly Building, 14 Kralja Milana Street)
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12.00 - opening of the exhibition marking 150 years since the birth of Mileva Maric Einstein (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)
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12.00 - sitting of the Committee on the Judiciary, Public Administration and Local Self-Government (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 3)
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13.00 - sitting of the Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management Committee (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 3)
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17.00 - sitting of the Committee on Constitutional and Legislative Issues (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 4)
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17.05 - National Assembly Deputy Speaker at the AEPA Association if Lawyers Conference: NO MORE SILENCE – ME AGAIN (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Small Hall)