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12 Oct 2026 | Brussels

Marsilio: Strong territories build strong nations and a more competitive Europe

The next European budget will be the decisive test of whether the European Union can translate the central role of its territories into concrete choices, ECR Group President Marco...

 

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.

 

04 Dec 2017 | Vienna

ECR Members welcome the creation of a new Task Force on Subsidiarity, but call for further clarification of its role

ECR Members welcome the creation of a new Task Force on Subsidiarity, but call for further clarification of its role

 

02 Dec 2017 | Brussels

Daiva Matonienė to Commissioner Vestager - Tax competition is a good thing, tax avoidance is not

Speaking during December's debate on competition policy with EU Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, ECR Group Member Daiva Matonienė said that Europe needed more fiscal competition between its regions.

 

29 Nov 2017 | Brussels

EU environmental policy: Offering local solutions to global problems

On 23 November, the ECR Group in the CoR held a conference dedicated to the role local and regional stakeholders play in global climate change negotiations, the bioeconomy and the circular economy.

 

27 Nov 2017 | Brussels

EU Funds – keeping it simple

Oldřich Vlasák (Councillor for the City of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic / Vice-President of the ECR Group) has been appointed by fellow local and regional politicians as rapporteur for the European Committee of the Region's opinion on 'Final Conclusions and Recommendations of the High Level Group on Simplification post-2020'.

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