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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...

 

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.

 

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.

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