Policy area: The citizens
Swedish regions, including the four northernmost regions of Sweden, unify with a key message – The new European pharmaceutical legislation needs an increased focus on factors strengthening patient access to relevant treatment options.
The political network Europaforum Northern Sweden has adopted a position paper on the EU’s new Arctic policy launched on October the 13th 2021. Europaforum Northern Sweden welcomes the policy but underlines that the Arctic needs to be embraced by the EU in a greater holistic manner than the new policy manages to deliver.
On October 21, the network Northern Sparsely Populated Areas (NSPA) organized a digital steering group meeting. On the agenda were updates on the EU’s new Arctic Policy, the NSPA’s arctic investment platform (AIP), the importance of the forest to the European Green Deal, and the NSPA’s work forward.
On October 13, the European Commission adopted the EU's new integrated Arctic policy. The North Swedens is included in the EU's Arctic regions and a large part of the Arctic policy therefore affects the region. The Northern Sparsely Populated Areas (NSPA) network, which North Sweden European Office is a part of, have been active within the EU in order to maintain the focus of the previous Arctic policy from 2016, which centered a lot of its attention around the EU contributing to the regional development in the European Arctic. This is a focus that remains with the new policy.
How can Europe's Arctic regions contribute to the EU's green deal through industrial leadership and access to sustainable raw materials and batteries? This was the theme when the Swedish and Finnish trade associations for mines, minerals, and metal producers, Svemin and Finnmin, arranged a webinar about mineral extraction, battery production and recycling in partnership with the European Commission during EU Industry Week.
16 Dec 2020 Arctic Futures Symposium 2020
14 Dec 2020 Upper Norrland has the highest level of social development in the EU
12 Feb 2020 North Sweden in meeting with the European Parliament Research Service
26 Nov 2019 Arctic Shorts - short film night with an arctic theme in Brussels
16 Oct 2019 Regional actors participated during European Week of Regions & Cities 2019
15 Oct 2019 Renewable energy transition in sparsely populated areas
26 Sep 2019 Norrbotten rewarded by EU: From three to four-star Reference Site in European healthy aging network
26 Sep 2019 Regional representatives from EU-counties signed declaration in Umeå for social sustainability in EU
16 Sep 2019 EU’s commissioner for health paid Umeå a visit
22 May 2019 NSPA Forum in Tromsø, Norge
07 Mar 2016 European Commission visit to northern Sweden
23 Mar 2015 NSPA has formally initiated the work with the OECD study
16 Oct 2014 Smart growth a theme on NSPA side event during Open Days 2014
06 Jul 2014 The Impact of Culture - Creative businesses for sustainable cities
