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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...

 

29 Sep 2021 | Brussels

Rob Jonkman's opinion on the implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility adopted by the ECON Commission

The Commission for Economic Policy (ECON) of the Committee of the Regions (CoR) adopted today by overwhelming majority the opinion of the ECR First Vice-President Rob Jonkman on the Implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (the Facility), following a debate with Members and Maarten Verwey, European Commission's Director-General for Economic and Financial Affairs.

 

27 Sep 2021 | Brussels

Disaster risk reduction and EU health policy high on the agenda for ECR NAT members

ECR members Adam Banaszak and Roberto Ciambetti shared their insights on these two topics with participants of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) Natural Resources (NAT) Commission meeting with Mr Banaszak focusing on disaster risk reduction and Mr Ciambetti on EU health policy.

 

24 Sep 2021 | Lipica

ECR rapporteurs on EU's delivery of timely recovery investments

In the context of the first High-Level Forum on Regional Recovery and Resilience ECR First Vice-President, Mr Rob Jonkman, and ECR Vice-President, Mr Juraj Droba, discussed how investments on the ground could be implemented whilst avoiding delays and overlapping with other EU policies.

 

16 Sep 2021 | Bratislava

Juraj Droba welcomes the Connecting Europe Express train in Bratislava

2021 is the year of the railways in Europe. This was announced by the European Commission to support and further promote passenger and freight rail transport in Europe. On this occasion, on 2 September 2021, a special Connecting Europe Express train departed from the Lisbon railway station. After eight days the train arrived in Bratislava at the Main Station.

 

10 Sep 2021 | Brussels

Rob Jonkman calls for stronger involvement of LRAs in the implementation of the National Recovery and Resilience Plans

On 6 September 2021, the European Economic and Social Committee organised a hearing devoted to implementation of the National Recovery and Resilience Plans (NRRPs). One of the key speakers at the event was ECR First Vice-President Rob Jonkman, the rapporteur of the European Committee of the Regions on the implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF).

 

09 Sep 2021 | Brussels

Stepping up EU's climate ambition should not overshadow economic recovery

This was the message conveyed by ECR members Marshal Jakub Chełstowski and Tjisse Stelpstra who took the floor during a meeting of the Commission for the Environment, Climate change and Energy (ENVE) of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR).

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