23rd PA Secure Steering Group Meeting in Tallinn: Shaping Priorities for a Safer Baltic Sea Region

On 8–9 April 2025, the 23rd PA Secure Steering Group Meeting took place in Tallinn, bringing together 20 experts from 9 countries. The meeting was chaired by the Estonian Rescue Board. Key topics included preparations for the upcoming DG meeting, welcoming the German Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK) as a new…

April 10, 2025

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SG agrees on future EUSBSR Action Plan actions: focus on authorities, citizens and innovation

On 17 December 2024, the PA Secure Steering Group held an interactive meeting to discuss updates to the EUSBSR Action Plan. The discussion focused on addressing the region’s current needs, building on past successes, and incorporating key frameworks such as the European Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction: Roadmap 2021-2030 and the suggestions from Niinistö report.…

December 20, 2024

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22nd Steering Group Meeting in Visby: Strengthening Resilience, cooperating with UA

The 22nd Steering Group (SG) meeting of Policy Area Secure (PA Secure) took place on October 31, 2024, in Visby, Gotland, during the EUSBSR Annual Forum. Chaired by Estonian PA Secure presidency, the meeting gathered members from eight BSR countries and two member organisations with specially invited Ukrainian delegation to discuss resilience and cooperation. The…

November 2, 2024

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21st Steering Group meeting: crisis comms, new WG for fire safety experts

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…

May 17, 2024

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20th Steering Group meeting in Riga: trying new coordination format

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…

October 3, 2023

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Steering Group 19th meeting in Berlin. Cross-PA & cross-MRS initiatives, new member: Finnish SPEK

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…

June 2, 2023

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PA Secure interactive meeting: can we use Exchange of Experts for BSR?

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.…

January 19, 2023

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PA Secure Steering Group met in Hamburg for 18th time: dumped munitions and crisis communication in focus

On 15-16 December 2022 the Policy Area Secure Steering Group met in Hamburg, hosted by the Hamburg Fire and Rescue Service. Except the usual exchange of latest activities, discussion on progress of Joint Position implementation, the participants from 9 countries received two in-depth briefings by experts: on dumped munitions in the Baltic Sea and on…

December 20, 2022

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17th PA Secure Steering Group meeting

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…

June 10, 2022

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16th PA Secure Steering Group meeting

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,…

November 16, 2021