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RCC Balkan Barometer: 67 percent of citizens believe in regional cooperation

FENA Hana Imamović

SARAJEVO, July 8 (FENA) - The Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) is to present the 5th, 2019 edition of its public and businesses viewpoints survey – Balkan Barometer (BB) at the Annual meeting of the organisation that is taking place on 8 July 2019 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Balkan Barometer was initially presented at the Western Balkans Summit in Poznan when General Secretary of RCC Majlinda Bregu emphasized that 67 percent of Western Balkan citizens believe in regional cooperation.

She added that 64 percent of business entities and 56 percent of citizens believe that European integration of the region is a good thing, for the first time in the last five that half of the respondents supported European integration and the same opinion was shared by 61 percent of young people.

However, 60 percent of the citizens stated that one of the greatest problems is unemployment and are increasingly worried about the corruption and the outflow of highly qualified workforce, and all this is why 39 percent of citizens think about leaving abroad looking for a better job.

The premier presentation of the 2019 Balkan Barometer was held at the Western Balkans Summit in Poznan, 3 days ago, featuring its key findings, while the Sarajevo event will give an in-depth look into the survey data per each WB economy: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, Republic of North Macedonia and Serbia.

The 2019 Annual Meeting of the Regional Cooperation Council will take place within the series of high-profile meetings organised at the end of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Chairmanship-in-Office (C-i-O) of the South-East European Cooperation Process (SEECP).

The meeting will be opened by Igor Crnadak, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina on behalf of the SEECP C-i-O and Majlinda Bregu, Secretary General of the RCC.

The RCC’s Secretary General Bregu will share the findings of the Balkan Barometer 2019 with the meeting's participants, followed by the presentation of the RCC’s Annual Report for period 2018–2019 and organisation’s Strategy and Work Programme 2020–2022, both expected to be endorsed at the RCC Annual Meeting and adopted at the SEECP Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs.

(FENA) L. N.

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