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What is the EU perception of the Arctic Region? What are the main policy issues in EU Arctic policy? Is the dominant policy issue climate change, geopolitics and global trade, or is regional development and transnational cooperation of paramount importance? The Arctic region currently gains a lot of global attention and increasingly has become a mirror for global changes and challenges.

A number of EU member states draw up their own national Arctic policies with a range of different policy focuses. Not only the Nordic countries but also Germany and France have for example created or updated their own Arctic policy papers during the past few years.

In a one-on-one discussion between MEP Arba Kokalari (EPP) and Dr. Andreas Raspotnik the aim is to take a look at where the focus of EU Arctic policy lies, and what are perceived to be the most pressing issues about the Arctic region? A decisive factor for this is the contextualization and perceptions of the Arctic by EU institutions, especially in the European Parliament and what the position of the EPP toward the Arctic region is.

Sign up for the Zoom Webinar here. Participation link will be sent upon confirmation of registration. The event will also be livestreamed on the KAS Nordic Countries Project Facebook page and will later be uploaded to the Project's YouTube-channel.

For inquiries, contact Mikko von Bremen on mikko.vonbremen@kas.de.

Program

13:00                 Opening and Moderation

                             Gabriele Baumann, Head of the KAS Nordic Countries Project

Speakers' Input (10 min each):

Arba Kokalari, Member of European Parliament for Moderaterna/Sweden and responsible for Arctic issues in EPP

Dr. Andreas Raspotnik, Senior Researcher, the High North Center for Business and Governance, Nord University, Bodø, Norway

Q&A

13:45                End of the event