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The Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs held in Belgrade on 26 November 2025 - held back to back with the last Committee of National Coordinators Meeting for 2025 under the Serbian CEI Presidency - gathered ministers and representatives of the CEI Member States who expressed strong appreciation for the work carried out throughout 2025.

During his opening remarks at the last Committee of National Coordinators’ meeting (CNC) under the Serbian Presidency in Belgrade on 25 November 2025 – held on the eve of the CEI Ministerial Meeting scheduled for tomorrow – Secretary General Franco Dal Mas addressed the Russian aggression against Ukraine:

The second Regional Workshop on the UPSHIFT Programme, organised by the CEI in collaboration with UNICEF, took place on 21 November 2025.

The 19th South East Europe Media Forum (SEEMF) was held in Chișinău, Moldova on 17-18 November 2025, bringing together around 100 leading figures from the media landscape, including editors-in-chief, media owners, CEOs, journalists, media experts, diplomats, policymakers, and academics.

On 19 November 2025, Secretary General Franco Dal Mas, together with Deputy Secretary General Yurii Mushka visited Kyiv in the framework of the Organisation’s ongoing support provided since the outset of the large-scale Russian aggression in 2022.

The 2025 edition of the CEI SEEMO Award for Outstanding Merits in Investigative Journalism has reaffirmed the pivotal role of investigative reporting in revealing human rights violations, social discrimination, corruption, gender inequality, and environmental challenges. 

Thanks to the CEI’s Observer status within the Council of Europe’s intergovernmental committees on youth, namely the European Steering Committee for Youth (CDEJ) and Joint Council on Youth (CMJ) the CEI represented by DSG Szuszanna Kiraly, pa

The CEI-supported Festival Identity 2025” workshop, held within the 29th

On 13 November 2025, Secretary General Franco Dal Mas paid an official visit to Warsaw, where he met with the Polish Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Henryka Mościcka-Dendys.

The project “Increasing Capacity of Research in Occupational and Environmental Health in the Republic of Moldova” has successfully concluded under the Know-How Exchange Programme (KEP), financed by Italy through the CEI Fund at the EBRD.

The upcoming training course “Challenges and Perspectives of Science Diplomacy in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe” was presented today at the CEI - Executive Secretariat in Trieste.

Italy through the CEI Fund at the EBRD is supporting the Know-how Exchange Programme project “CEI Support to Technology Transfer for Hospitals in Albania and North Macedonia (ALBAU-TT-CRO)”.

The CEI took part in the 25th Anniversary of the Regional Anti-corruption Initiative (RAI), celebrated in Sarajevo on 6–7 November 2025.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the CEI Parliamentary Dimension took place in Belgrade on 5 November at the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia in the framework of the Serbian CEI Presidency 2025.

The Balkan Economic Forum 2025 was held in Belgrade on 31 October, under the auspices of the CEI.

On 28 - 30 October 2025 the CEI – Executive Secretariat participated in the 75th session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe (RC75), in Copenhagen together with ministers, senior officials and partners. 

The ResiliEnhance Platform 2025 Meeting, held on 27 - 28 October 2025 at the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM) in Udine, gathered experts, institutions, and representatives from across UNESCO Chairs in Central and Eastern European countries,