March, 2011, www.seetv-exchanges.com

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Forum on the Balkans organised by EPC (European Policy Centre) - Building democracy in the Balkans: top-down and bottom-up approaches.

Seminar on New procedures within the MED Programme for IPA partners: In the framework of the second call for strategic projects in the MED programme, an IPA seminar to inform about new procedures within the MED Programme for IPA partners.

March 3 | Brussels

European Parliament's Committee on Budgets: Mobilisation of the EU Solidarity Fund - Floods in 2010 in Croatia - vote on report by Reimer BÖGE (EPP, DE). From 09:00 to 12:30.

March 3 | Zagreb

Commissioner For Justice, Fundamental rights and citizenship Viviane REDING à Zagreb delivers the speech "Croatia, a new model for enlargement" to the meeting of the EPP Board.

March 7 | Sarajevo

Panel discussion: ‘South East Europe in 2011 and Beyond: Sharing the Same Vision’, marking the third anniversary of the stablishment of the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC). With Hido BIŠČEVIĆ, Secretary General of RCC and Štefan FÜLE, Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy, European Union (tbc). Programme

March 8 | Strasburg

European Parliament Plenary Session: European integration process of Montenegro - Council and Commission statements followed by debate.

March 8-9 | Brussels

First round of talks between Belgrade et Pristina with the facilitation of the European Union.

March 10 | Strasburg

The Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, together with the Delegation for South East Europe, will hold a joined meeting with Senator Dick MARTY, who drafted the report on trafficking in human organs in Kosovo adopted by the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly on 25 January - IN CAMERA (only MEPs will be allowed to participate). 09:00 - 10:00

Delegation of the European Parliament (Committee on Foreign Affairs) to the Republic of Croatia. The Delegation will meet with government representatives, political leaders and civil society groups of the Republic of Croatia. Meetings are planned with Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor, Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration Gordan JANDROKOVIĆ, Minister of Justice Dražen BOŠNJAKOVIĆ, Minister of Economy, Labour, Entrepreneurship Mr Đuro POPIJAČ, leaders of opposition parties in the Croatian Parliament, and non-governmental organisations. The Delegation consists of Hannes SWOBODA (S&D, AT), Elena BĂSESCU (EPP, RO) and Charalampos ANGOURAKIS (GUE/NGL,EL).

March 16 | Brussels

European Parliament, Committee on Foreign Affairs, will meet with Vasko NAUMOVSKI, Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs of Macedonia (9.45 – 10.45) withŠtefan FÜLE in attendance, Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy. In the afternoon, Motion for a resolution on the 2010 progress report on Macedonia - Vote on resolution by Zoran THALER (S&D, SI) (15.00 – 16.30).

March 16-18 | Budva

Ministerial conference: Strengthening Cooperation in Fight against Organized Crime in South East Europe. This conference will gather ministers of justice and interior from South East Europe, and be organized under the Montenegrin Chairmanship-in-Office of the South-East European Cooperation Process (SEECP).

March 17 | Brussels

Štefan FÜLE, Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy, will meet with Tomislav NIKOLIĆ, President of the Serbian Progressive Party.

March 17-18 | Sarajevo

Regional meeting: Role of National Parliaments in Negotiations for the EU Accession. This event, co-organized by the European Commission Directorate General for Enlargement and the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) Secretariat, will gather Secretary Generals and Chairpersons of the Committees for European Integration of the National Parliaments of the Western Balkans countries, as well as representatives of international organizations and other stakeholders.

March 21-23 | Prizren

Conference: ‘Preserving Historic Districts in Kosovo’ aiming at raising awareness about the need to preserve historic buildings in Kosovo. Representatives of the European Union, the Council of Europe, and UNESCO will participate as well as representatives of the Kosovo Government and municipalities. Expert speakers from Kosovo, countries of the region and of EU member States will make presentations or participate in the debates. The conference will conclude with the issuing of a statement, which will subsequently be handed to the authorities.

March 21 | Brussels

FOREIGN AFFAIRS COUNCIL: The Council meeting will discuss developments in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Press conference +/-15h).

March 22 | Brussels

Commissioner Cecilia MALMSTRÖM receives Ivica DACIC, Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia.

Conference - The Kosovo Liberation Army – Is there a Swiss history? Organised by Universitat Zurich.

March 23-25 | Sarajevo

PACE President Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu will make official visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina, in order to continue discussions on Bosnia and Herzegovina’s implementation of commitments and obligations, as well as the preparation of the constitutional reform.

March 24 | Brussels

Commissioner Štefan FÜLE receives Srdan MILIC, President of the Opposition Socialist Peoples Party of Montenegro.

March 24 | Brussels

Commissioner Štefan FÜLE receives Nikola GRUEVSKI, Prime Minister of Macedonia.

March 25 | Brussels

European Council's President Van Rompuy meets with Boris TADIC, President of the Republic of Serbia.

March 25 | Brussels

European Parliament Jerzy Buzek Meeting with Igor LUKŠIĆ, Prime Minister of Montenegro, followed by a press point - President's Office (12:30).

March 25-27 | Brussels

Brussels Forum - Session on the Balkans: Bringing the Balkans into Europe (27, from 9:30 to 10:45). With Igor Lukšić, Prime Minister, Republic of Montenegro and Boris Tadić, President, Republic of Serbia.

March 25-26 | Ljubljana

Conference - Chains of Migration: Migration and Idenity in the Post-Yugoslav Countries. This conference is organized as the final output of an international research and networking project: Challenging Identity Normativity, funded by the Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office Ljubljana (ASO), coordinated by the Faculty for Social Work at the University of Ljubljana. The main goal of this conference is to raise some pertinent questions in social sciences and humanities on the topic of migration and identities. 'Chains of migrations' articulates the multilayered social-political-economic reasons and effects of migration paths in/from the Balkans, especially: the continuity of migrations, serial migration, politics of monitoring migration, forced and undocumented migration etc.

March 26 | Paris

Documentary screening - « Once Brothers » : Basket-ball, histoiry et nationalismn the post-Yugoslavia region, organised by Le Courrier des Balkans.

March 26 | Brussels

Commissioner Štefan FÜLE meets with Boris TADIC, President of the Republic of Serbia.

March 29 | Belgrade

Commissioner Štefan FÜLE on official visit to Serbia: attends 20 years TEMPUS conference; meets with Prime Minister Mirko CVETKOVIC; Deputy Prime Minister Božidar ĐELIC; addresses the National Assembly; meets with Ivica DACIC, Minister of Internal Affairs and Snezana MALOVIC, Minister of Justice.

March 29 | Paris

Theater show/ Debate: The country of eagles, Something Always Happens in Albania. Organized by Institut de Sciences Politiques.

March 30-31 | Brussels

Regional Coordination Conference: ‘Western Balkans and Europe 2020 – Supporting Convergence and Growth’, organized by the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) Secretariat, with the support of European Commission in an effort to bring together representatives of regional organizations, task forces and initiatives with bilateral and multilateral donors, international financial institutions and European Commission representatives.