Month: May 2021

Porto Social Summit: all partners commit to 2030 social targets

Partners have signed up to the three 2030 headline targets set in the Commission’s European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan in a joint Porto Social Commitment. Powered by WPeMatico

The European Capitals of Smart Tourism 2022 competition is now open

Tourism is the EU’s third largest socio-economic activity, representing around 10% of the EU’s GDP. The sector plays a crucial role in generating growth and jobs, but still holds untapped potential – especially in the area of smart tourism. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the tourism

Regional Training on Harmonized Marine Litter Monitoring

To address these gaps, the Interreg Med Plastic Busters MPAs project has elaborated and applied in pelagic and coastal Mediterranean MPAs a harmonized monitoring approach for detecting the presence of macrolitter and microlitter  in all marine compartments  and for detecting  the impact of marine litter on marine ecosystems and species.

WHAT’S NEXT IN PANORAMED MAINSTREAMING ACTIVITIES

Since the beginning of March, PANORAMED has implemented a short thematic campaign aiming at increasing awareness and understanding of mainstreaming processes in the Mediterranean region, while at the same time contributing to its streamlining in the new 2021-2027 programming period. As main results, PANORAMED has created a new Factsheet on

Coronavirus: Commission proposes €6.8 million to support 1,700 dismissed workers of air carriers KLM and Finnair

Today, the European Commission proposes to support 1,200 former workers of KLM in the Netherlands and 500 former workers of Finnair in Finland, who lost their jobs due to the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on passenger air transport. Powered by WPeMatico

On 9 May regional and local leaders will discuss with citizens how to bring the Conference on the Future of Europe to regions, cities and villages across the EU

On the occasion of the launch of the Conference on the Future of Europe on 9 May in Strasbourg, the European Committee of the Regions is organising, together with the French government and the main French territorial associations, a local dialogue which will give the floor to local and regional

EU local leaders ready to work with the European Parliament to better communicate Europe on the ground and scale up cooperation on the Conference on the future of Europe

European Parliament’s Vice-President for Information policy, Press and Citizens Relations, Othmar Karas, and Vice-President for Relations with the European Committee of the Regions (CoR), Klára Dobrev, joined the members of the Bureau of the CoR to debate how to better communicate the EU action and achievements to people in regions,

Elected leaders from the European Parliament and European Committee of the Regions are natural political allies to shape a more democratic Europe

Elected leaders from the European Parliament and European Committee of the Regions are natural political allies to shape a more democratic Europe Local and regional authorities ask the President of the European Parliament David Sassoli to fully take part in the implementation and governance of national recovery plans Powered by