Day: July 1, 2021

News from EUROCITIES – partner of our Integration Initiative

When migrants move, it is overwhelmingly to cities that they come. Migrant integration happens in cities, and it is overseen by local governments. EUROCITIES recently published its fourth Integrating Cities Report which gives a direct insight into how cities are integrating migrants today. It is now available to read in

Conference on the Future of Europe: elected politicians at EU, national, regional/local level should team up to strengthen the EU democratic model

Manfred Weber, Iratxe Garcia Perez and Guy Verhofstadt – three representatives of the European Parliament within the Executive Board of the Conference on the Future of Europe – discussed with CoR members the role and the contribution of regional and local leaders to the Conference. Powered by WPeMatico

Local leaders welcome EU Rural Pact and long-term vision but urge stronger attention for rural recovery

The publication of the long-term vision for rural areas by the European Commission is a major success for the European Committee of the Regions (CoR), which has been asking for a rural agenda since 2016. Local leaders welcome the proposal of a Rural Pact and Action Plan setting objectives and

Cities and regions step up their game to regulate online platforms and pave a safe way for SMEs into digital markets

The European Committee of the Regions strengthens its commitment to the EU’s wide-ranging legislative project of reinforcing democratic control over dominant internet platforms and restoring a levelled online economy that works for SMEs and individual consumers alike. During the June plenary session, the Committee’s members discussed an opinion which supports