Minister Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović stressed the importance of regional cooperation in the EU enlargement process, especially the importance of CEI as the oldest European regional forum with the highest number of members, whose mechanisms support, politically and in program terms, CEI members in the process of Euro-Atlantic integration.
Minister Grabar-Kitarović stressed the meaning of relations between the Central European Initiative and the European Union, as well as the decision to invite the European Commission to become a CEI monitor, and the formation of a European Commission office in charge of CEI and EU cooperation.