Regulation establishing Global Europe

- Supports the proposed budget of EUR200.3 billion that is necessary to strengthen the EU's role across the globe; proposes to ringfence parts of the geographic pillars so that all countries and regions can rely on minimum allocations.

- Calls on the Commission, given the current volatile geopolitical environment, to develop a new Communication that should recognise the role of local and regional authorities (LRAs) as partners in the EU's external action, including as part of Team Europe.

- Calls for multi-level governance and localisation to become the guiding principles of the Regulation for stronger coherence between internal (EU Cohesion) and external policies.

- Highlights the importance of the CoR's stronger involvement in policy development and implementation, mobilising CoR-led engagement frameworks with the EU candidate, Mediterranean and Eastern Partnership countries.

- Calls for deeper inter-institutional dialogue on the local and regional dimension of EU 's external action and the role of city diplomacy, including by involving the CoR in the Enlargement Forum and in outreach to the EU Delegations.

- Calls for territorial and multi-level governance screenings to be conducted by EU Delegations and for performance-based plans with enlargement countries to include legally binding 'subsidiarity clause'.

- Calls for systematic involvement of LRAs throughout the programming cycle.

- Calls for adequate financial resources for LRAs, including tailored and streamlined funding mechanisms under Global Gateway and dedicated initiatives to foster political and technical exchanges between cities and regions, notably between the EU and candidate countries.

- Calls for reinforced capacity building and effective technical assistance targeting LRAs' ability to access and manage EU funding, develop and implement reforms, improve investment climate, deliver on SDGs and respond to emergencies.

- Calls for full coherence between the Regulation and EU Interreg programmmes and draws attention to the unique and strategic role of the outermost regions and their neighbours.

- Calls for improved monitoring by integrating a 'localisation marker' into the existing impact assessment tools.