The political groups in the European Committee of the Regions have collected many of the examples of the challenges faced by their members, and their responses, as well as ideas about how the EU could help them.

Lokalni in regionalni voditelji so novega evropskega komisarja za delovna mesta in socialne pravice Nicolasa Schmita opozorili, da mora EU določiti jasna pravila za gospodarstvo platform, ki bodo zagotavljala pravice delavcev in enake konkurenčne pogoje za spletne in nespletne gospodarske dejavnosti na enotnem trgu.

Predsednik Evropskega odbora regij (OR) Karl-Heinz Lambertz bo 4. decembra v okviru razprave s predsednikom Evropskega parlamenta Davidom Sassolijem imel že tretji govor o stanju v Evropski uniji: stališče regij in mest . V tem govoru ob 25-letnici OR bo predstavil pričakovanja regij in mest v novem mandatu institucij EU. Na plenarnem zasedanju bodo člani OR med drugim z novim evropskim komisarjem Nicolasom Schmitom razpravljali o krepitvi socialnih pravic ter po razpravi z izvršnim podpredsednikom Evropske komisije Fransom Timmermansom sprejeli stališče o evropskem zelenem dogovoru.

The members of the commission for economic policy (ECON) of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) discussed and adopted draft opinions on the collaborative economy, the European Commission's annual competition report as well as plans on how to improve the administrative capacity of local and regional authorities to support investment and reforms. The full assembly will vote on the three draft opinions during the plenary session in December.