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 European Committee of the Regions (CoR), at the initiative of member of Dalarna County Council Birgitta Sacrédeus (SE/EPP), has adopted an opinion on Active and Healthy Ageing at its October plenary session. Europe is growing older and so the CoR stresses the need for preventive action and the crucial role that new technologies play in ensuring the active and healthy ageing of EU citizens. "Physical and mental balance as well as the silver economy will make it easier to meet this challenge, in the face of a demographic imbalance," said rapporteur Birgitta Sacrédeus.

The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) considers that recognising the role of regional ecosystems and innovation hubs is essential to boost research and innovation in Europe. In an opinion presented by Birgitta Sacrédeus (SE/EPP), Member of Dalarna County Council, the CoR highlights the need to better coordinate EU's cohesion policy with research and innovation policy and warns against growing inequalities between more and less developed regions.

Lokalni in regionalni politiki iz vse EU bodo 6. februarja na plenarnem zasedanju Evropskega odbora regij (OR) pozdravili Vasilico Viorico Dăncilă, predsednico romunske vlade in predstavnico romunskega predsedstva EU. Med glavnimi temami na razpravi bodo prednostne naloge predsedstva EU, ohranjanje kohezije kot skupne evropske vrednote in prihodnost EU po izstopu Združenega kraljestva. Spremljanje zasedanja v živo (#CoRplenary LIVE) – Dokumenti v zvezi z zasedanjem so na voljo tukaj.