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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...

 

10 Nov 2022 | L'Aquila, Italy

Political declaration to instil new impetus into cooperation amongst conservative and reformist politicians

The ECR Group in the European Committee of the Regions today held its fourth annual Localism Summit in the Abruzzo region in Italy during which conservative and reformist local and regional leaders confirmed their willingness to strengthen bilateral relations in the form of a political declaration.

 

09 Nov 2022 | Liberec

Rebuilding Ukraine among key themes of CORLEAP meeting in Liberec

The European Green Deal, crisis management and rebuilding Ukraine were the themes of the Conference of Regional and Local Authorities for the Eastern Partnership (CORLEAP), which brought together in Liberec representatives of cities and municipalities not only from the European Union but also Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. Belarus is also part of the Eastern Partnership but its membership has been suspended due to undemocratic developments and repression in recent years, as Pavel Branda, chairman of the Commission for international cooperation of the Union of towns and municipalities of the Czech Republic and ECR Group Member in the CoR said.

 

06 Nov 2022 | L'Aquila, Italy

Abrruzo region President Marco Marsilio to host ECR Localism Summit in L'Aquila

The European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) Group in the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) will next week hold its fourth annual Localism Summit in the Abruzzo region in Italy. ECR CoR President and President of the Abruzzo Region Marco Marsilio will be the host for this year's edition.

 

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".

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