The CIVEX commission is organising the study visit "Addressing benefits and challenges of enlargement for EU and candidate countries' cities and regions" to Szeged (Hungary) on 13 September 2024, at the invitation of Anna Magyar (HU/ECR).
The President of the European Committee of the Regions, Vasco Alves Cordeiro, was invited to take part in the annual meeting of the US National Conference of State Legislators (NCSL), which took place from 5-7 August in Louisville, Kentucky.
At their first meeting since the European Parliament elections, members of the Commission for Citizenship, Governance, Institutional and External Affairs (CIVEX) on 8-9 July discussed two topics that are expected to feature prominently among the priorities of the EU in the next five years – the EU's enlargement and migration.
Representatives of the EU's regions and cities have emphasised the need for discussion about migration at the European level over the coming five years to be more focused on integration and on the contribution that newcomers to the EU can make.
The 23rd meeting of the CIVEX Commission will take place on Monday, 8 July 2024 from 10:00 to 13:30 EEST, at the Artis Centrum Hotels conferences center, Totorių str. 23, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Local and regional elected officials from the three shores of the Mediterranean have called on the Union for the Mediterranean and European institutions to make water a strategic priority and to support local authorities in the energy transition.
Every city in the European Union should establish a task-force focused on helping people at risk of drug addiction and criminal gangs, the European Committee of the Regions urged on 20 June, in a set of recommendations prompted by the EU's concern at the proliferation of illicit drugs in European cities and regions.
The international community has now clearly recognised that local government will be key to Ukraine's reconstruction and recovery, leaders of the European Committee of the Regions said at the Ukraine Recovery Conference on 12 June, welcoming the Conference's focus on local challenges and the creation of a coalition to support Ukrainian municipalities and regions.
The Roundtable will bring together key stakeholders, including CIVEX Chair, Patrick Molinoz, to discuss the role of artificial intelligence and digitalisation, the issue of financing and the impact of decentralised cooperation to implement SDGs.
The Conference taking place the 17 May is the final dissemination event of the H2020 Whole-COMM project, ‘Exploring the Integration of post-2014 Migrants from a Whole-of-Community Perspective’, coordinated by the Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin.
A clear division of powers, locally sensitive planning, and greater administrative capacity are now – together with stronger air defences – among the priority issues for Ukraine's reconstruction, the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) said at a summit in Kyiv of leaders of regions and cities.
The 9th Enlargement Day, the annual flagship event on EU enlargement policy dialogue and experience sharing organised by the European Committee of the Regions, will be held on 29-30 April 2024.
To encourage more cities and regions to join the Summer Camps for Ukrainian children' initiative this year, the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) and the Association of Ukrainian Cities (AUC) will be hosting an online informative session on 24 April from 10:30 to 12:00 (CET).
The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) has urged the European Union to focus more sharply on the local and regional level of government in the Western Balkans as the prospects of countries in the region becoming members of the EU rise.
The European Committee of the Regions has called on the European Union to be ready to provide additional long-term funding to support Ukraine's recovery from the war, in an opinion that backs the start of membership talks with Ukraine and Moldova.
The 22nd CIVEX commission meeting will take place on Wednesday 10 April from 11:00 to 12:30 and from 14:00 to 17:00 at the European Committee of the Regions, Rue Belliard 99-101, Brussels, room JDE 52.
