Good governance is a cornerstone of democratic stability and security as well as a conditional asset for achieving sustainable development. It plays a key role in ensuring an environment in which business and jobs can flourish and investment climate improve. The CEI aims at fostering a transparent and accountable state organisation, bringing together multi-level approaches and different actors for adopting shared long-term development policies and programmes, properly harmonised with agreed transnational strategies such as the macro-regional ones; it aims at promoting regional cooperation since it plays an important role in supporting intergovernmental dialogue, in preventing and solving bilateral distress, facilitating common transnational planning and preserving long-term stability upon the values of democracy, the rule of law and respect for human rights.