The president of KEDE, Georgios Patoulis, said that the Greek local and regional authorities intended to participate actively, by taking positions and making proposals, but also by establishing political alliances, in the project to build a new Europe.

The upcoming European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 is a great opportunity to bring communities together and diversify and strengthen our local economies, representatives of EU institutions and Europe's regions and cities highlighted in Timișoara, Romania, on 29 September.

A few months after its launch, the European Committee of the Regions' " Reflecting on Europe " campaign aiming at collecting citizens' concerns and expectations at the grassroots, is gaining rapid momentum.

The event, jointly organised by theRegion of Central Macedonia and the European Committee of the Regions as part of the European Union's debate on The Future of the European Union: Citizens' Expectations , took place at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall last night and was a resounding success, with hundreds of people taking an active part.