As the European Conservatives and Reformists Group in the European Committee of the Regions, we are proudly supporting the Spitzenkandidat of our political family Jan Zahradil MEP.

As local and regional authorities, we look forward to working with our political family's candidate for the May 2019 elections to the European Parliament so as to ensure not only a high turnout for ECR candidates, but also to facilitate a bottom-up engagement of the grassroot supporters of our political parties.

Our Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe has been the consistent voice of a genuine reform of Europe led by the principle of governance at the most practicable level as underlined in ACRE's Prague declaration. We look forward to working with Jan Zahradil in advocating a euro-realist and euro-localist EU and in ensuring that this message is heard.