​During this year's European Week of Regions and Cities, the Knowledge Exchange Platform gathered policymakers and experts from local, regional and European level in Brussels to discuss how cities and regions can catalyse social innovation – that is, new products, services or models that respond to social needs.

Turkish mayors call for the creation of a joint consultative committee with the CoR.

The European Committee of the Regions on 6 December welcomed the European Commission's "renewed commitment" to expansion of the European Union in the Western Balkans and called for central governments in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*1, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia to step up their collaboration with local and regional governments.

Lokalni in regionalni voditelji so 6. decembra pozvali Evropsko unijo, naj sprejme ukrepe, ki bodo ublažili posledice izstopa Združenega kraljestva iz EU, ter proračun EU, ki bo spodbudil regionalna gospodarstva. Poziv je bil izražen med razpravo v Bruslju z Michelom Barnierjem, glavnim pogajalcem EU za izstop, ki je požel pohvalo za svoje delo, saj mu je uspelo doseči sporazum, ki omejuje tveganja za EU in zlasti za Republiko Irsko, pa tudi za to, da je med pogajanji prisluhnil stališčem mest in regij.