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During a debate with Dubravka Šuica, the European Commission’s Vice-President for Democracy and Demography, members of the European Committee of the Regions called for a genuine open, inclusive and democratic consultation that reaches out to all citizens in all regions and cities. Powered by WPeMatico
Large industry plans and global investment strategies to decarbonise the world’s economy might well be on the table of big European capitals. Yet, it is in small coastal communities that Mediterranean Storm Gloria hit the most. Sub-municipal communities are at the frontline of climate impact while remaining pivotal to deploy
Greece’s Apostolos Tzitzikostas (EPP) was elected President of the European Committee of the Regions today. The Governor of Central Macedonia in Greece will lead the EU’s assembly of local and regional elected politicians for the next two and a half years. During the Committee’s first sitting of the new five-year
The model of collaboration between European and Libyan cities developed over the past four years could serve as an inspiration for peer-to-peer partnerships with regions and cities elsewhere in Africa, the European Committee of the Regions said on 12 February. The recommendation is contained in a set of proposals by
The European Union should do much more to support the consolidation of effective and independent public administrations in municipalities and regions in the Balkans and Turkey. This would, the European Committee of the Regions argues in an opinion adopted on 12 February, help counter the “increasingly hostile environment for civil