Last week in Regensburg the First Annual Forum of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region took place. A diverse group of Danube Region stakeholders were in attendance, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel showed the extent of high level political engagement in the Strategy by making the keynote speech. Merkel highlighted that regional cooperation across national borders is necessary to achieve a highly competitive Europe and Danube Region.

The First Annual Forum of the EUSDR was live-streamed online and the videos are now available here. An article about the Forum from newspaper Süddeutsch is available here (German language only).