A few days ago, the US general Herbert McMaster, Trump’s national security adviser, announced the upcoming visit of the President Trump to Warsaw, Poland, as well as his visit to the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany.
Apart from a meeting with the Polish President Andrzej Duda, in a detailed explanation of Trump’s travel plan, McMaster also announced an official bilateral meeting of the US President with the Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic in Warsaw on the 6th of July 2017, who will be the co-host of the Three Seas Initiative Summit.
‘’He will attend the Three Seas Initiative Summit to demonstrate our strong ties to Central Europe’’, said McMaster in the official announcement.
Just to remind you, the ''Three Seas Initiative” is a declaration adopted by 12 EU member countries in order to establish an informal platform for strengthening political ties and facilitate cross-border cooperation in the region and implementation of macro-regional projects.
The region BABS: Baltic – Adriatic – Black Sea accounts for 28 percent of the EU territory, 22 percent of its population but only for 10 percent of its GDP.
Last August in Dubrovnik a round table gathered the presidents of Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Lithuania and Slovenia, as well as ministers and deputy ministers of Austria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Romania and Slovakia.
On this occasion, discussions about the economy focused on the need to improve the infrastructure of the whole region and in particular energetic cooperation, mainly to promote the plurality of energy sources and reduce energy dependence. According to the Croatian President, 50 billion Euros are needed to overcome the current shortcomings. However, she also pointed to the major challenges of the region, primarily to the demographic decline and emigration.
“The area between the Adriatic, the Baltic and the Black Sea is the lifeblood of Europe,” commented the Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, the host of the ''Three Seas Initiative'' forum held in Dubrovnik last year.
