Members of the CoR commission for Citizenship, Governance, Institutional and External Affairs – CIVEX – debated on how to strengthen the role of the CoR in the EU governance system, notably for the Conference on the future of Europe in the presence of MEP Domènec Ruiz Devesa (ES/S&D) and Prof. Sarah Meyer, research associate at Danube-University Krems. The European Union’s democratic foundations are among the main issues that the Conference will address and local and regional authorities are the keepers of the EU’s democratic foundations on a daily basis and the ones who most practise participative democracy. It came out of the discussion that the Conference is an opportunity for demonstrating and promoting the role of the CoR as the institutional representative of cities and regions in the EU decision-making process within the framework of the existing Treaties. In a broader perspective, Treaty changes towards more legislative powers to the CoR could be considered in order to strengthen the democratic dimension of the EU.
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