Members of the Commission for Sustainable Development (SUDEV) of the Euro-Mediterranean Regional and Local Assembly (ARLEM) met for the first time in Bethlehem on 15 June to debate sustainable urban mobility and the local and regional dimension of wa...

Ramón Luis Valcárcel Siso, President of the EU Committee of the Regions (CoR) and co-President of the Euro-Mediterranean Regional and Local Assembly (ARLEM), met today in Tel Aviv with Israeli's Mayors from the Union of Local Authorities in Israel (U...

With advances in technology and the drive to find alternative forms of energy in recent years, the potential of shale gas has increasingly attracted interest across the globe. Yet there are concerns that tapping this form of energy may have serious r...

The UK's city of Bristol has won the European Green Capital Award for 2015. The Committee of the Regions' First Vice-President, Mercedes Bresso, joined the EU Environment Commissioner, Janez Potočnik, at a ceremony in Nantes, France. Bristol received...

The European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Cecilia Malmström, has launched a new interactive map presenting good practices of local or regional authorities in the area of integration of migrants. This new tool was developed in cooperation with the C...

The Committee of the Regions (CoR) warmly welcomes the adoption by the European Parliament report by Emer Costello (S&D/IRL) on the Fund for European Aid for the Most Deprived. The EP's final text includes key recommendations set out in a CoR opinio...

Air pollution continues to be a major area of serious concern for EU citizens with 72% claiming that public authorities are not doing nearly enough to deal with the issue. Yet cities and regions across Europe are committed to reigning in pollution an...

​The European Commission's President José Manuel Barroso met today together with the President of the Committee of the Regions (CoR), Ramón Luis Valcárcel Siso, and the Presidents of seven major European associations of local and regional authorities...

Today the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, and Committee of the Regions President, Ramón Luis Valcárcel, discussed the main economic, social and political challenges of the European Union. Determined action to implement agre...

The Joint Consultative Committee (JCC) between the Committee of the Regions (CoR) and Montenegrin local authorities held its second meeting in Podgorica, Montenegro, on 4 June 2013. The meeting focused on two key issues faced by Montenegro's local au...

In its opinion on the challenges related to the innovation divide in Europe adopted at the Committee of the Regions (CoR) May Plenary Session, the CoR analyses how the EU financing programmes foreseen for the next financial programming period can eff...

The success of the next EU environmental action programme depends on ensuring compliance, fully engaging Europe's local and regional authorities and committing sufficient funding, the Committee of the Regions (CoR) has argued. This was the main messa...

​Para abordar los desafíos socioeconómicos que afronta actualmente la Unión Europea, el Comité de las Regiones (CDR) hace un llamamiento para adoptar una visión a largo plazo que esté estrechamente relacionada con los sectores de la cultura y la crea...

El Comité de las Regiones ha expresado fuertes reservas respecto de la supresión definitiva del régimen de cuotas lácteas, sin que esta supresión se acompañe de medidas alternativas de regulación de los mercados. Pide que se realicen urgentemente est...

Abordar las inaceptablemente altas tasas de desempleo de los jóvenes es una de las prioridades de las regiones y ciudades de la UE. En el Dictamen sobre el Paquete de Medidas sobre el Desempleo Juvenil, elaborado por el presidente de la Región Toscan...

Plans to revise the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive (EIA) ignore the additional financial and administrative burden it will create for Europe's local governments, the Committee of the Regions (CoR) has warned. The Committee also argues that...

En un debate con Johannes Hahn, Comisario de Política Regional, que tuvo lugar en el pleno del 30 de mayo, el presidente del CDR, Ramón Luis Valcárcel, alertó sobre los Fondos Estructurales 2014-2020: «Sin acuerdo a la vista y con problemas cruciales...

The Committee of the Regions has called for an ambitious social investment strategy supported by adequate European funding to fight poverty and social exclusion in the European Union. At a conference entitled "Fighting poverty and social exclusion: W...

Durante el pleno del Comité de las Regiones del 30 de mayo, el presidente del CDR, Ramón Luis Valcárcel, y el comisario europeo de Política Regional, Johannes Hahn, analizarán la situación en que se encuentran las negociaciones sobre el paquete de co...

The 11th Bureau meeting of the Euro-Mediterranean Regional and Local Assembly (ARLEM) took place on 23 May 2013 in Barcelona at the Union for the Mediterranean's headquarters, hence marking a step forward in the relations between the two bodies.

Los miembros de la asociación Arco Latino celebraron la 12ª Asamblea General los días 16 y 17 de abril en la sede de la Diputación de Lleida. El encuentro contó con la participación de unos 60 representantes (políticos y técnicos) procedentes de 21 a...

Luc Van den Brande (BE/EPP), member of the Committee of the Regions (CoR), stressed the need for stronger multilevel coordination and governance in financing cities and regions. Participating in the Assembly of European Regions Summit (AER) on 16 May...

El presidente del Comité de las Regiones, el Sr. Ramón Luis Valcárcel Siso, ha inaugurado hoy la Conferencia Internacional de Donantes para el desarrollo de Mali -Juntos por la renovación de Mali-, en la sede del Comité de las Regiones.

The President of the Committee of the Regions, Ramon Luis Valcárcel, has welcomed the Economic and Financial Affairs Council's (ECOFIN) decision to increase the EU budget 2013 by €7.3bn as a first step towards the €11.2bn top up requested by the Euro...

«¿Qué representa para ti ser ciudadano europeo?» es el tema del concurso de ilustraciones destinado a todos los ciudadanos de la UE y de Croacia, que organiza el Grupo del PPE del Comité de las Regiones.

En muchas regiones de la UE, y en particular en aquellos Estados miembros que sufren restricciones presupuestarias significativas, los niveles inauditos de desempleo juvenil están minando seriamente las perspectivas de empleo de toda una generación d...

En su intervención en una conferencia celebrada en Bruselas, el presidente del Comité de las Regiones, Ramón Luis Valcárcel Siso, advirtió que para cumplir un día los ambiciosos objetivos fijados en la estrategia de crecimiento de la UE –Europa 2020–...

Con ocasión de la celebración del Día de Europa, el presidente del Comité de las Regiones, Ramón Luis Valcárcel Siso, ha subrayado el papel fundamental que ha jugado la UE para lograr un progreso económico importante que ha redundado en beneficio del...

Leader of the CoR's British Delegation, Cllr Gordon Keymer (UK/ECR), has announced the launch of a new political party in the Committee of the Regions.

What should be the role of research and innovation in taking steps towards "Smart regions"? How to make this transformation happen in practice and through which instruments and projects? This was the focus of debate during a conference entitled "Pion...