The 3rd meeting of the European Rural Networks’ Assembly fed back on the activities of the ENRD and EIP-AGRI networks, mapped out how rural network members are responding to the Cork 2.0 Declaration and discussed how to better support ‘digitisation’ in rural areas.

The nearly 200 Assembly members who met in Brussels on 1 December 2016 also heard a keynote speech from the European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development who urged Assembly members to use their “rural know-how… contacts and credibility to ensure today’s key messages are heard in the right places”.