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08 Aug 2026 | Marcinelle

ECR Group President Marco Marsilio Commemorates the 70th Anniversary of the Marcinelle Disaster

ECR Group President and President of the Abruzzo Region, Marco Marsilio, today took part in the commemorations marking the 70th anniversary of the Marcinelle mining disaster, one o...

 

01 Feb 2018 | Brussels

Rob Jonkman: No to EU tax

"We must not fall into the trap of using the current debate over the future of our economic and monetary affairs to create an EU system where we would be trying to bribe citizens with their own money. Creating new taxes at EU level will lead to more criticism of centralisation of powers in Brussels", said ECR Group President Rob Jonkman in a plenary debate with Commissioner Pierre Moscovici.

 

01 Feb 2018 | Brussels

Local and regional politicians outline reforms needed for more effective European Structural Investment post-2020

"Bold simplification putting local and regional beneficiaries at the heart of the post-2020 structural investments will help ensure that the European Union's next long-term budget better responds to the challenges facing regions and cities", said Oldřich Vlasák, rapporteur for the opinion on the final conclusions and recommendations of the High Level Group on Simplification for post-2020, adopted unanimously by the European Committee of the Regions on 1 February 2017.

 

31 Jan 2018 | Brussels

Structured dialogue with Frans Timmermans - Oldřich Vlasák calls for more localism in planning the EU budget

ECR Group Vice-President Oldřich Vlasák called on the European Commission's First Vice-President Frans Timmermans to improve EU governance structures and include local and regional government in decisions concerning the future EU budget.

 

25 Jan 2018 | Brussels

Pavel Branda presents his recommendations on small scale projects in cross-border areas to the European Parliament

At the meeting of the European Parliament's REGI Committee that took place on 25 January 2018, ECR Group Member Pavel Branda, the CoR rapporteur for the opinion on "People-to-people projects and small scale projects in cross-border cooperation programmes", presented his work on the recommendations of the CoR for more efficient cross-border cooperation.

 

10 Jan 2018 | Brussels

Reforming the EU's Common Agricultural Policy

Members of the ECR Group called on the European Commission to reform and streamline the Common Agricultural Policy at a joint meeting of the Commission for Natural Resources (NAT) of the Committee of the Regions and the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture (AGRI).

 

15 Dec 2017 | Brussels

The Committee of the Regions' Reflecting on Europe initiative comes to Lombardy

Over 11 000 ideas and proposals on the future of Europe from thousands of EU citizens are the first results of the Committee of the Regions' Reflecting on Europe initiative, which on December 15 came to Lombardy Regional Council's Pirelli building. Among the speakers was ECR Group Member Matteo Bianchi.

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