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29 Oct 2026 | Trieste

Fedriga hosted COTER seminar in Trieste, putting regions at the heart of Europe’s cohesion agenda

ECR member and President of the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia Massimiliano Fedriga hosted the European Committee of the Regions’ COTER external seminar, bringing regio...

 

18 May 2019 | Brussels

Marshal Władysław Ortyl appointed spokesperson on the Carpathian strategy

The COTER Commission has decided that Władysław Ortyl, Marshal of the Podkarpackie region in Poland and chair of the Polish delegation in the ECR Group, will be the European Committee of the Regions’ rapporteur for the opinion on the launch of a Carpathian macro-regional strategy.

 

13 May 2019 | Brussels

Involving European regions in humanitarian aid

In February this year, I went on a short but intense mission to Ethiopia with Doctors with Africa CUAMM (University College for Aspiring Missionary Doctors), an association with which the Veneto Region has been cooperating for many years in the field of health and the training of medical and paramedical personnel on the African continent.

 

19 Apr 2019 | Brussels

Northern Netherlands; Europe's Hydrogen Valley

The Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU) of the European Commission have selected the Northern Netherlands to be Europe's first Hydrogen Valley.

 

11 Apr 2019 | Brussels

Improving the European Semester

Upon the request of the Romanian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the European Committee of the Regions prepared its position paper on “the European Semester and Cohesion Policy: aligning structural reforms with long-term investments”.

 

11 Apr 2019 | Brussels

David Simmonds: The ECR Group opposes the introduction of conditionality to cohesion policy

On 11 April 2019 David Simmonds, Deputy Leader of the London Borough of Hillingdon in the United Kingdom, spoke on behalf of the ECR Group during the plenary debate on fundamental rights.

 

04 Apr 2019 | Brussels

Reforming the European Semester

Speaking on 4 April at a conference entitled "The coordination of economic policies at EU level, a renewed role for the European Semester'', ECR Group president Rob Jonkman outlined the European Committee of the Regions' views on the need to reform the European Semester, which provides a framework for the coordination of economic policies across the EU.

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