The conference also touched on EU-Russia relations, perspectives for Euroregional Cooperation between the Kaliningrad Region and the neighbouring regions in the Baltic Sea Region, the road maps on the Four Common Spaces, the renewal of the EU-Russia PCA and the new joint Northern Dimension Framework Policy which all have a special impact on the possibilities to improve the social and economic development within ERB.

During the conference its participants adopted a political declaration including recommendations on how to improve border crossing procedures in the future in order to lessen problems affecting the flow of cargo and people to/from the Kaliningrad Region. The declaration had been prepared between January and February 2007, based on the findings of a currently drafted external study, concerning the short- and long-term impact of the EU enlargement on the flow of cargo and people to/from the Kaliningrad Region.