The Central European Initiative (CEI) is a regional forum created with the aim to foster the integration of former Soviet ‘satellites’ in the European and Western European co-operation frameworks.
According to Italy, which initiated cooperation, the CEI was to fill the gap created after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, prevent possible hegemony of Germany in Central Europe, and facilitate post-communist countries to develop cooperation with the West. The goal of the CEI is to strengthen Europe's cohesion, its political, economic and social stability and security.
It was formed in Budapest in 1989. The CEI headquarters have been in Trieste (Italy) since 1996.
The Central European Initiative or CEI, is the largest and oldest forum of regional cooperation in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe. It now counts 17 member states, many of whom are not even part of Central Europe: Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine.
https://www.cei.int/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centra...ean_Initiative
https://www.oecd.org/cfe/leed/aboutt...tiativecei.htm
http://www.internationaldemocracywat...ean-initiative
https://pl-pl.facebook.com/CEI.Secretariat
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