Leading members of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) met the Federation of Local Authorities in Israel on 2 July during a brief visit to Tel Aviv intended to strengthen cooperation.

The city of Ramallah and the Association of Palestinian Local Authorities on 30 June hosted a meeting of the executive board of the Euro-Mediterranean Regional and Local Assembly (ARLEM), to discuss how cities and regions can collaborate to achieve the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. Local and regional leaders, working together in the context of the Union for the Mediterranean, also considered ways to develop the blue economy in the Mediterranean and to deepen integration and economic relations between local and regional authorities throughout the Mediterranean.

Two months after the European Parliament resolution on the negative impact of a number of chemicals used in food and cosmetics production in the EU, local and regional representatives have called on the European Commission to provide a higher level of protection from hazardous chemicals. According to studies, endocrine disruptors, or EDCs, have a harmful effect on the work of the body's hormones, leading to infertility, obesity and cancers . In children, they are increasingly linked to autism and other conditions.

Medlemmarna i Europeiska regionkommitténs utskott för naturresurser (NAT) sammanträdde på Gozo med den blå ekonomin högst upp på dagordningen. Med en omsättning på 566 miljarder euro genererar den blå ekonomin i EU 1,3 % av EU:s totala BNP och sysselsätter 3,5 miljoner människor ( kommissionen 2018 ). Andra viktiga punkter som diskuterades på Gozo var gränsöverskridande samarbete för katastrofriskreducering och en ny europeisk agenda för den havsrelaterade industrins utveckling. NAT-utskottets konferens och sammanträde, med över 100 deltagare, anordnades av Samuel Azzopardi (MT–EPP), Gozos regionpresident och borgmästare i dess huvudstad, Rabat.