What is the difference in the lives of women in Europe, Asia, the United States or Africa? ​What kind of Europe do young Poles want? Do they feel pressure to set up a family or career? What are their open borders, opportunities for education and working abroad? At the conference, young women in Western Pomerania will have the opportunity to share their expectations of the European Union’s actions, as well as to discuss the challenges young women face.  

​The geographical location of Saxony in the border triangle between Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic offers favourable conditions for cross-border dialogues. With the support of the Bertelsmann Foundation a series of three events will be organised in the coming months. During the first event young people from Saxony (DE), Lower Silesia (PL) and Usti and Karlovy Vary (Cz) will be invited to exchange on three topics to be discussed at the third closing citizens' conference. This will be followed by an online event scheduled for 27 November 2021 with randomly selected citizens from the same regions to elaborate on the topic of European Citizenship. The closing part of the series is a two-day event at which participants will meet to further discuss the subject of European Citizenship, but also the three other topics developed by the trilateral Youth Forum. 

Citizens Dialogue for the Future of Europe it is a unique opportunity for citizens of both countries to be part of an extraordinary Democratic event that will give the opportunity to share their thoughts and their dreams for the common European future. The theme of the event contributes to explore new efficient and innovative ways to create a greener future but also to involve directly citizens on the issue of environmental protection. There is need for a green transition support for a sustainable and green development in both regions that is also coupled with mass unemployment. The event is taking place on 27th of September 2021 17:00-21:00 where with the help of ZOOM and local hotspots participants in both countries (Greece and North Macedonia), as well as people remotely connected will be enable to have a fruitful exchange. If you wish to follow the event in Greek please click here. 

​In occasion of the weekend dedicated to the project “Three Laender, Three Schools, One Europe” organised by the Euregio Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino, a special “Meet the Future session will be organised. Gunther Platter (EPP, AT) will meet the participants of the event and will have a discussion with the youngsters on the Future of the European Union.​​​ For a more detailed agenda, please click here. 

The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) is preparing an Opinion on the EU Action Plan: 'Towards Zero Pollution for Air, Water and Soil'. The Zero Pollution Action Plan was published in May by the European Commission that created a dedicated webpage. It is one of the main elements of the Zero Pollution Ambition for a Toxic-free Environment, one of the main environmental priorities of the European Green Deal. 

Online Stakeholder Consultation on "Towards mainstreaming the Gender Perspective in the European Green Deal and Cohesion policy". Wednesday, 8 September 2021, 10:00-12:00. The meeting will take place via Interactio platform with EN/IT interpretation. 

The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) is currently drafting an opinion entitled "Effectively engaging local and regional authorities in the preparation of the Partnership Agreements and Operational Programmes for the 2021-2027 period". The rapporteur for this opinion is Mr Juraj Droba (SK/ECR), Chairman of the Bratislava Self-Governing Region. 

On 29 April 2021, the Commission launched a detailed stakeholders consultation EU-wide protection of geographical indications for non-agricultural products which will be open till 22 July 2021. The consultation aims at capturing the views of all relevant stakeholders on the problems related to the existing legal protection of authentic geographically-rooted non-agricultural products within the internal market; on the benefits and risk of EU action; on the available policy options including the control and enforcement of a future EU-protection system for such products; on the potential impacts of these policy options. 

The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) is currently drafting an opinion entitled " Revised Trans-European Energy Infrastructure Regulation fit for the Green and Digital Transition" .  

On 4 March 2020 the European Commission published the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan , which proposes employment, skills and social protection as the headline targets to be achieved by the end of the decade as part of the EU's strategic agenda to strengthen the social dimension of the Union and to build a cohesive, resilient Europe for the future. These targets should guide policy decisions in the Member States and their regions and should also allow to measure and monitor progress, along with the revised Social Scoreboard. 

The European Committee of the Regions is in the process of elaborating its position on its opinion on "Future plan for care workers and care services – local and regional opportunities in the context of a European challenge".