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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...

 

19 Oct 2022 | Brussels

President Marsilio: EU energy policy has failed and needs to be revised

"I think the time has come to reflect on what has made the EU so weak; our energy policy needs particular attention and should be revised". So said the president of the Abruzzo region in Italy and of the ECR Group in the European Committee of the Regions, Marco Marsilio, speaking at the plenary session of the CoR in Brussels, during the European Week of Regions and Cities.

 

19 Oct 2022 | Brussels

Discussions on the need for new macro-regional strategies

An opinion on a macro-regional strategy for the Mediterranean was adopted at the October CoR plenary session. The opinion addresses the shared challenges the Mediterranean region faces and calls for a macro-regional strategy to be created in order to tackle them effectively. ECR First Vice-President Ortyl congratulated the rapporteur on the opinion he had produced and expressed the hope that strategies for both the Carpathians and the Mediterranean would soon be adopted by the European Union.

 

18 Oct 2022 | Brussels

García-Gallardo calls on the members of the Committee of the Regions to support "birth rate & family-friendly" policies

The Vice-President of the Regional Government of Castile and Leon in Spain, Juan García-Gallardo, spoke in the debate on the Future of Europe held on 12 October at the European Committee of the Regions. A debate in which the ECR Member stressed that "there is no future without birth rates, strong families, safe borders".

 

14 Oct 2022 | Brussels

Tesei: for Umbria, hydrogen is all about sustainability

"Sustainability and the new forms of renewable energy are of real importance to the Umbria Region. Along with four other Italian regions involved in this pilot project, Umbria is now a hub for the development of renewable energy from hydrogen.

 

13 Oct 2022 | Brussels

Mayor Bóka pleased that water is a priority for COP27

As Mayor of Balatonfüred in Hungary, a city located on the northern shore of lake Balaton, Mr Bóka knows only too well the importance of water featuring as a priority of this year's COP27 in Egypt.

 

13 Oct 2022 | Brussels

GDP statistics do not always reflect complex development needs of regions

In a CoR plenary debate with EU Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms, Elisa Ferreira, Mr Peter Švaral who has served as Mayor of Rohožník in the Bratislava region for 16 years, praised the success of the EU's Cohesion Policy. For the Slovak Mayor "it is the one EU policies that unites all representatives of local government in their support for it".

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