From May 26 to June 4, under the slogan "Meet Europe in your city!", Information Days will be held in nine regional centers of Ukraine, reported the Western Information Corporation by Ian Boag, Head of the Delegation of the European Commission in Ukraine.\n\n"Currently, it is particularly important to raise awareness among Ukrainian youth about EU-Ukraine relations. The Delegation of the European Commission in Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus, within the framework of the EU Regional Information Days in Ukraine, will conduct a bus information tour for the second time," noted Ian Boag.\n\nAccording to the information and analytical sector of the Rivne Council and Rivne City Executive Committee, last year during April, under the "European Spring" program, the bus and cars of the Delegation of the European Commission in Ukraine and the European Movement visited Chernihiv, Poltava, Luhansk, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Donetsk and Lviv.\n\nThis year, the information days "Meet Europe in your city!" will take place in 9 cities of Ukraine: May 26 – Zhytomyr, May 27 – Rivne, May 28 – Lutsk, May 29 – Ternopil, May 31 – Ivano-Frankivsk, June 1 – Chernivtsi, June 2 — Kamianets-Podilskyi, June 3 – Khmelnytskyi, June 4 – Vinnytsia.\n\nThe main goal of the project is to disseminate information about Ukrainian-European relations and the European Union among the youth of Ukraine. During the tour, the project team will be accompanied by staff of the Delegation of the European Commission in Ukraine. Within the official program, meetings of European Commission representatives with local authorities and press conferences, entertainment programs on the central squares of the cities are planned.\n\nAs Ian Boag reported, "In Ukraine we want to be closer to the people, and that is precisely why we are holding regional information days for the second time. Ukrainian citizens should receive as much information as possible about the European Union, its activities, experience and values, and about Ukraine's relations with it."\n\nIan Boag said that the EU conducts certain programs in regional media to disseminate information about the European Union. Such activity is one of the main tasks of our delegation. In 2003 and 2004, journalists from 12 regional newspapers from Zaporizhzhia, Chernivtsi, Rivne and other cities participated in a trip to EU institutions. This year we also invited regional journalists to Brussels.\n\nReference\n\nFrom 1967 to 1974, Mr. Boag was in the diplomatic service of Great Britain, and in 1978 he joined the European Commission. After serving in the Commission's Directorate-General for Development, in 1985 he began working in the cabinet of Commissioner Claude Cheysson (Mediterranean policy and relations between northern and southern countries). From 1987 to 2004, Mr. Boag worked as head of various departments of the Directorate-General for External Relations, and also headed the delegations of the European Commission in Morocco (1987-1991), Brazil (1991-1994) and Egypt (2001-2004). Since 2004 — Ian Boag — Head of the Delegation of the European Commission in Ukraine.