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Germany holds the Presidency of the Council of the European Union for the second half of 2020.

The coronavirus pandemic is an ongoing challenge and will have a major impact on the German Presidency. There will be no EUPAN Working Level Meeting during the German Presidency. The EUPAN DG Meeting is still scheduled for November.

The German Presidency will focus on the current crisis. The goal is to learn from each other: we want to find out how the coronavirus crisis has been addressed by the member states’ public administrations and how successful their efforts have been.

Please contact de.eupan@bmi.bund.de with any enquiries regarding EUPAN. For more information about the German Presidency of the Council of the European Union, please visit https://www.eu2020.de/.

In the first semester of the 2020, Croatia is holding the Presidency of the Council of the European Union for the first time, and is responsible for the EUPAN activities.

Croatia’s focus will be on strengthening citizens’ trust in public administration, with emphasis on the fields of digitalization and innovation, ethics and organisational culture and efficient human resource management.

For any additional information or inquiries related to EUPAN, please do not hesitate to contact us using the e-mail address hr.eupan@uprava.hr.

General information about Croatian Presidency of the Council of the European Union is available on the official website eu2020.hr.

We look forward to welcoming you in Croatia!

In the second semester of 2019, Finland was holding the Presidency of the Council of the European Union and was responsible for the activities in the European Public Administration Network (EUPAN).

During the Finnish presidency EUPAN will aimed at understanding better…

1. the meaning of trust in the ways we can develop public administration
2. the possibilities digitalization and the use of artificial intelligence provide to public administration development

by taking a closer look at following topics:

• Horizontal cooperation in data-driven decision-making
• The use of artificial intelligence and robotics in public services
• Building a culture of integrity and trust
• Life-long learning in public administration

 

For more information regarding the Finnish Presidency, please visit the official website https://eu2019.fi/

In the first semester of 2019, Romania is holding the Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

This is the first time Romania takes the responsibility of holding the Presidency and it is committed to a successful cooperation within the EUPAN. The Romanian Presidency will focus on the following areas:

• Competencies necessary for e-government
• Ethics, an integral part of the organizational culture
• Challenges in the use of electronic services in the public administration
• Impact of strategic planning documents on the central public administration performance

General information related to the Romanian Presidency can be found on the website: http://www.romania2019.eu/

In the period 1 July – 31 December 2018, Austria is holding the Presidency of the Council of the European Union. This includes responsibility for the activities in the European Union Public Administration Network.

For more information regarding the Austrian Presidency, please visit the Austrian Presidency website – https://eu2018.at/ …

The 70th meeting of the Directors General (DGs) of EUPAN – an informal network of the DGs responsible for public administration in the EU Member States and the European Commission – was held in Sofia as part of the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. The event was hosted by the “Modernisation of Administration” Directorate of the Bulgarian Council of Ministers. …

In the period 1 January – 30 June 2018, Bulgaria is holding the Presidency of the Council of the European Union. This includes responsibility for the activities in the European Union Public Administration Network.

For more information regarding the Bulgarian Presidency, please visit the Bulgarian Presidency website – https://eu2018bg.bg/ …