Vidzeme Planning Region highlights the needs of Latvia’s Eastern border area at the European level

Vidzeme Planning Region (VPR) continues to actively represent the interests of Latvia’s eastern border area at the European Union level, maintaining ongoing dialogue with the European Commission and international partners to ensure that the region’s situation is duly reflected in policy planning and decision-making. The needs of Latvia’s eastern border area are also represented by VPR within the EU interregional initiative Regio-Silience, which brings together external border regions from Poland, the Baltic States, Finland and Norway.

Within this initiative, Vidzeme Planning Region is represented by Santa Vītola, Head of the Vidzeme Open Innovation Hub (VAIC), who this autumn participated in the interregional seminar “Regio-Silience in East Lapland: North-Eastern Europe’s attractiveness” held in Salla, Finland. She provided a professional regional perspective in international discussions and thematic working groups, highlighting both the shared challenges of the EU’s external border regions and the development and security priorities set by Vidzeme Planning Region.

Ms Vītola reminded participants that Vidzeme Planning Region, just like the Latgale Planning Region, is an external border region of the European Union, characterised by specific security, development and mobility challenges.

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Originally published on 14 Nov

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