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Forum in Trieste on accelerating Balkan integration for the EU's future

(ANSA) - BELGRADE, 08 SET - The South East Europe Observatory's annual forum, scheduled for September 14 and 15 in Trieste, will focus on accelerating Western Balkan integration as a strategic choice for Europe's future. Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani is also expected to attend a meeting on September 15 with his Albanian and Montenegrin counterparts, Ferit Hoxha and Ervin Ibrahimovic, moderated by Ambassador Luigi Mattiolo. The initiative, which was announced today at the CEI headquarters, is aimed specifically at young people, who will be the focus of the first day of work at the MIB Trieste School of Management. During the See Youth forum, young people from various countries will be asked to identify the most pressing issues facing Europe's future and "design the 2027 agenda" for the Liberal Dialogues, which will be presented the following day. The meeting will be held on September 15th at the Ridotto of the Teatro Verdi. Among other things, the Charter of the South East Europe Observatory, which proposes a strategic vision for accelerating EU enlargement, will be discussed. MIB founder and CEO Vladimir Nanut announced that a Montenegrin graduate will be awarded a scholarship to attend the 37th edition of the MBA in International Business at the MIB. "The Observatory," according to Enrico Samer, a member of the Einaudi Foundation's board of directors, "was established on the initiative of the Luigi Einaudi Foundation and the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism (MIB). The goal of European dialogues is to "introduce young people in participating countries to liberal thought" and "generate a critical spirit." This year, the Liberal Dialogues visited five cities in Italy, Slovenia, Serbia, Albania, and Montenegro, and "next year, they will visit ten." Andrea Cangini, director of the SEE Observatory and secretary general of the Einaudi Foundation, stated in a video that the European dialogues were promoted "to minimise the disinformation and cognitive warfare that the Russian Federation and China are waging in that part of Europe," the Balkans. "This is a project to defend democracy and European unity," he concluded. (ANSA).