In talks with the president of AP Vojvodina Executive Council, Bojan Pajtiæ LLM, held on 27th January 2005, Georg Schopfer, Minister for European Affairs, External Cooperation and Finance in the Government of the Province of Styria, said, 'Styria is highly interested in improving the cooperation with Vojvodina and shall therefore support its applications to the funds of the European Union'. Moreover, this Austrian province has a regional office in Brussels. It has also launched several projects in cooperation with Vojvodina, which were submitted for consideration to funds and financial committees of EU.

