Finnish presidency of the PA Secure welcomed the Steering Group members to their 21st meeting in Helsinki on 13 - 14 May 2024. Highlights of the agenda included a presentation from Morgan Olofsson, Director of Communications at Swedish MSB, who advocated for establishing a Crisis Communication Network in the Baltic Sea Region and a proposal…
PA Secure at EU Week of Regions
CBSS Adviser Andriy Martynenko spoke on behalf PA Secure about BSR cooperation in civil security at the workshop ‘Building resilience across borders: Strengthening regional disaster risk and crisis management’ during 2023 European Week of Regions and Cities in Brussels.
The workshop, moderated by the Commission discussed how border regions in the…
PA Secure gathered for its 20th meeting back-to-back with the EUSBSR Annual Forum in Riga - on 3 October 2023. Generously hosted by the City of Riga, the meeting took place in the historical City Council building. The Steering Group members from seven BSR countries, Finnish SPEK and UBC Safe Cities Commission were welcomed by…
On 31 May -1 June 2023, the Policy Area Secure Steering Group gathered for the 19th time. The meeting took place in Berlin at the premises of the Berlin Fire and Rescue Service. Under the German presidency, representatives from the 8 EU Member States form the Region, Norway, the Union of the Baltic Cities (Safe…
On 18 January 2023 PA Secure held an interactive meeting, dedicated to Exchange of Experts Programme of EU Civil Protection Mechanism. Representative from the EOE team explained to the participants how the programme works now and participated in the discussion on how it can be adapted to the need of the Baltic Sea Region.…
On 1 June 2022 the Policy Area Secure Steering Group met physically for the first time since 2019. The meeting, hosted by the Norwegian DSB in Oslo included participants from eight Member States in the region. The members expressed the need to go deeper into certain civil security issues in the next Steering Group meetings in order to maximise the…
16 November 2021, Stockholm: Policy Area Secure met again, this time - in a hybrid form with coordinators present in person at the CBSS Secretariat premises and the rest of the group taking part online. Issues in the agenda: updates from DG Regio by Mr. Koistinen, traditional roundtable on the implementation of the Joint Position,…
During the PA Secure Steering Group 15th meeting, the Finnish Ministry of Interior presented a new initiative, aimed at organising the international cooperation within the PA Secure into separate, focused streams. These streams called sub-groups could provide platforms where the experts, working directly within each of the priorities of the Joint Position on Enhancing Cooperation in Civil Protection…
On 4th May 2021, the Steering Group of PA Secure gathered for its 15th meeting, which, due to the pandemic, was held online. Participants from 9 Baltic Sea Region countries were present at the meeting. The representative from the European Commission, Mr. Petri Koistinen (DG Regio) addressed the meeting with a presentation about the status of the…
On 3 February 2021 the Policy Area Secure Steering Group met in an interactive session , held online . The meeting included participants from seven Member States in the region , in addition to the CBSS Secretariat who chaired the meeting. The aim of the session was to facilitate the everyday work within international cooperation…