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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...

 

24 Oct 2017 | Yerevan

EU and its Eastern Neighbourhood – going local

Dr. Pavel Branda (Deputy Mayor of Rádlo municipality, Czech Republic), the ECR Group representative on the Committee of the Regions' Conference of Regional and Local Authorities for the Eastern Partnership's (CORLEAP) Bureau, spoke at the CORLEAP conference in Yerevan, Armenia on 24 October 2017.

 

13 Oct 2017 | Brussels

Protecting citizens from natural disasters

Representing European local and regional government, ECR Group Members Adam Banaszak, Pavel Branda and Cllr Harvey Siggs spoke at a high-profile conference organised jointly by the United Nations and the European Committee of the Regions on the topic of disaster risk management.

 

11 Oct 2017 | Brussels

Grounding the EU's space policy

On 11 October the European Committee of the Regions adopted an opinion that positively assesses the Space Strategy for Europe proposed by the European Commission. Władysław Ortyl, Marshal of the Podkarpackie region and ECR Group Member, led the work on smart specialisation and regional investment.

 

11 Oct 2017 | Brussels

EU's silence on Catalonia - We need a union of values, not a union of selective approaches

During the 11 October Plenary session, members of the CoR discussed Catalonia's disputed "self-determination referendum", which the Spanish government has declared as illegal.

 

10 Oct 2017 | Brussels

Climate change - Oldřich Vlasák calls on the European Commission to uphold the subsidiarity principle

ECR Group Vice-President, Oldřich Vlasák (Councillor of the City of Hradec Králové in the Czech Republic) addressed European Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete (responsible for Climate Action and Energy) during the CoR plenary session on 10 October.

 

08 Oct 2017 | Brussels

Obituary

ECR Member Cllr Robert Gordon CBE, who had been fighting cancer, passed away in October of this year.

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