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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...

 

04 May 2021 | Brussels

Pavel Branda: Cross-border regions severely impacted by pandemic

Who better than ECR member Pavel Branda to talk about the cross-border dimension of the pandemic situation and of the Conference on the Future of Europe? As chairman of the intergroup on cross-border cooperation in the EU Committee of the Regions (CoR), Mr Branda said that with the closure of borders "cross-border cooperation witnessed the biggest setback in decades".

 

03 May 2021 | Brussels

Regional airports – a vision for a better future

The European Committee of the Regions' Commission for Territorial Cohesion Policy and EU Budget (COTER) has adopted an opinion on the future of regional airports.

 

29 Apr 2021 | Brussels

Juraj Droba appointed CoR rapporteur for the preparation of partnership agreements and operational programmes

ECR Vice-President Juraj Droba has been appointed rapporteur for the opinion on "Effectively engaging local and regional authorities in the preparation of partnership agreements and operational programmes

 

29 Apr 2021 | Brussels

Professor Tomasz Grosse guest speaker at ECR Group meeting

In the margins of the European Committee of the Regions' (CoR) May plenary the ECR Group held their group meeting with the participation of Professor Tomasz Grosse. ECR members were delighted to welcome the Professor, also serving as a member of the CoR High-Level Group on European Democracy, to discuss the CoR's work in the context of the Conference on the Future of Europe.

 

29 Apr 2021 | Brussels

Tjisse Stelpstra: We must empower citizens to think greener

During a meeting of the "Green Deal Going Local" working group ECR Member Tjisse Stelpstra remarked that the Green Deal is not only about countries, regions, cities and villages, but "it is also about citizens".

 

21 Apr 2021 | Brussels

Pavel Branda: closure of borders was not the answer to the pandemic

Even before the pandemic the inhabitants of border regions were already facing many obstacles on a daily basis such as commuting and administrative challenges, and the closure of borders served to only further "exasperate the situation", including, in some cases, the "splitting up of families and friends".

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