The European Committee of the Regions' Commission for Natural Resources (NAT) debates on the damage caused by the Coronavirus, its impact on local communities and EU Health Emergency Mechanism. At the meeting on 18 June, members also discussed opinions on cross-border healthcare, sustainable use of natural resources within the ​Mediterranean insular context and on strategy for Rural Revival.

The United Kingdom's planned departure from the European Union poses a threat to fragile coastal economies and communities across the Atlantic region, the European Committee of the Regions has said. In recommendations adopted on 1 December, the EU's assembly of local and regional leaders urges the EU to reinforce its still-young Atlantic strategy and to allow UK regions and local authorities to be able to continue to take part in EU programmes.

Digital divide in countryside is 'urgent' challenge for EU. Rural actors face a race against time in their efforts to ensure that the European Union's next long-term budget better addresses the challenges of villages and remote regions, the European Committee of the Regions warns in a set of recommendations that call on to do more to sustain rural regions.

Il Comitato europeo delle regioni (CdR), l'assemblea dell'UE dei rappresentanti politici locali e regionali, terrà l'ultima sessione plenaria del 2017 il 30 novembre e il 1° dicembre. Tra gli oratori principali: Pierre Moscovici, commissario europeo per