Three years after the Paris agreement, time has come to put the accord into motion. That is the core objective of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change – COP24 which will take place in Katowice from 3 to 14 December 2018.  

The 21th COTER Commission meeting will take place on 14 December from 11:00 to 13.45 at the European Committee of the Regions, Rue Belliard 99-101, Brussels room JDE 52. COTER members will be invited to elect their new Chair and discuss and adopt the following draft opinions: • Road safety and automated mobility, by Rapporteur Jozsef RIBANYI (HU/EPP) • Streamlining TEN-T implementation, by Rapporteur Michiel SCHEFFER (NL/ALDE) Members will also be invited to participate in an exchange views on with Rob JONKMAN (NL/ECR), ECON rapporteur for the opinion "The European Semester and Cohesion Policy: aligning structural reforms with long-term investments".  

 

Local and regional authorities have a crucial role to play and can be key actors in bringing about this progress, notably through their substantive control over public services. Women remain, however, underrepresented in local decision-making across the EU. To date, only 13% of elected mayors and 29% of members of regional governments and assemblies are female. This leads to a lack of awareness of gender-related issues and thus to a lack of action to address the obstacles that adversely impact women in their daily lives. 

​The 22nd ECON Commission Meeting will take place on 14 February 2019 from 11:00 to 18:30 in the European Committee of the Regions in Brussels, room JDE 52.  

​The 22nd meeting of the SEDEC commission and conference on the "Digital Agenda: strategies for addressing technological innovation in infrastructure and services" will take place on 18/02/2019 from 10:30 - 14:00 and on 19/02/2019 from 09:00 to 13:00 in Palermo, Italy, Via Notarbartolo 17.  

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