The growing challenge of children and adolescents travelling illegally to Europe requires a "coherent system" that should aim at providing "normality and stability" for them, whether that involves integrating or resettling them in Europe or returning them, the European Committee of the Regions has said. The recommendations adopted on 11 October by the EU's assembly for local and regional politicians would have implications for the guardianship, legal access, accommodation and integration of migrants and would entail a sharper focus on child migrants in the work of local, national and EU officials.

The President of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR), Karl-Heinz Lambertz, will deliver the first-ever " State of the European Union: the View of Regions and Cities " address during the CoRs' plenary session on 10 October in Brussels. The address will be followed by a debate with the European Council's President Donald Tusk and EU local leaders on the future of Europe. EU Commissioner for climate action and energy, Miguel Arias Cañete, will then set out the EU's priorities for the UN climate talks in Bonn as EU cities and regions revitalise a climate coalition with their US and Canadian counterparts.

Throughout 2017, there will be events all over Europe to mark the 30th anniversary of the Erasmus+ Programme. These will include conferences, forums, dialogues, celebrations, debates, and exhibitions. See the article for more.