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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...

 

01 Oct 2017 | Manchester

ECR hosts fringe event at UK Conservative Party Conference 2017

The ECR Group of the European Committee of the Regions hosted its third fringe event at this year's Conservative Party Conference, which took place in Manchester, United Kingdom, on 2 October.

 

01 Sep 2017 | Tallinn

Arnold Hatch endorses Jim Nicholson's call for EU Emergency Funding for Northern Ireland

Alderman Arnold Hatch (Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council, Northern Ireland, UK/ Member of CoR and ECR Group Presidency/ President of the Northern Ireland Local Government Association) speaking at the European Committee of the Regions' Bureau meeting in Tallinn, Estonia this morning, endorsed the call of the MEP for Northern Ireland, Jim Nicholson, to European Commissioner Phil Hogan to provide EU Emergency Funding for farmers and agri-businesses and all those affected by the flash floods in Northern Ireland.

 

01 Aug 2017 | Brussels

Cities and regions underline the EU added-value of people-to-people and small-scale projects in cross-border areas

Local and regional elected representatives believe that more importance should be attached to people-to-people and small-scale projects in the framework of cross-border cooperation programmes, in order to overcome obstacles at borders and to integrate border areas and their citizens.

 

17 Jul 2017 | Brussels

Local leaders adopt Daiva Matonienė's opinion on renewable energy and internal electricity market

The Members of the European Committee of the Regions adopted on 16 July a set of legislative and policy recommendations on the Winter Energy Package, presented by the European Commission in November 2016.

 

12 Jul 2017 | Brussels

Rob Jonkman re-elected ECR Group President

Rob Jonkman (Alderman in Opsterland Municipality, the Netherlands) was unanimously re-elected the President of the European Conservative and Reformists Group.

 

07 Jul 2017 | Brussels

ECR Group President calls for continued close EU-UK cooperation and for devolution of powers to European regions

More than 1,200 local government leaders, councillors and ministers attended this year's Local Government Association conference in the United Kingdom.

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