CoR and EU Commission launch partnership to help local authorities integrate migrants and implement the New Pact on Migration and Asylum

The European Commission and the European Committee of the Regions are joining forces to develop a new partnership to increase support to the work on integration that is performed by EU cities and regions. The partnership was announced by the President of the Committee of the Regions (COR), Apostolos Tzitzikostas, and the European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, at today’s COR plenary session.