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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...

 

06 Apr 2018 | Brussels

Irish local government share best practices with Libyan counterparts

ECR Group Member Arnold Hatch shared his experience of peace-building on the island of Ireland with 180 young leaders from across the lines of conflict in Libya, as part of an initiative to encourage younger Libyans to develop community-building projects in their home cities.

 

23 Mar 2018 | Brussels

EU enlargement and the Western Balkans

Speaking on behalf of the ECR Group during the CoR's March plenary session, Cllr David Simmonds called on EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn to create procedures which would prevent individual new Member States from obstructing EU membership talks.

 

21 Mar 2018 | Brussels

30 years of EU Cohesion Policy: Pavel Branda takes part in a live Euronews discussion

Pavel Branda, who represents the ECR Group as well as Czech cities and municipalities in the European Union as a Member of the European Committee of the Regions, participated on 21 March in a specially organised Euronews discussion programme.

 

05 Mar 2018 | Brussels

ECR Member Adam Banaszak voices local and regional authority concerns on natural disasters

Mr Adam Banaszak represented the local and regional government within the EU Member States at the European Civil Protection Forum, the largest European conference on civil protection organised by the European Commission.

 

04 Mar 2018 | Rome

Two ECR CoR Members elected to the Italian Parliament

Two ECR Group Members in the European Committee of the Regions, Matteo Bianchi and Carlo Fidanza, were elected Members of the Italian Parliament in the general elections held on 4 March 2018.

 

02 Mar 2018 | Groningen

Organic farming in Groningen is expanding. Henk Staghouwer has given the sector a push in the right direction.

When he was re-elected as a member of the provincial executive with responsibility for agriculture three years ago, provincial representative Henk Staghouwer (Member of the Executive Council of the Province of Groningen, The Netherlands) set himself the task of giving organic farming a push in the right direction.

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