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09 Sep 2026 | Brussels

Bianchi: Cutting Red Tape, Respecting Subsidiarity

During the external CIVEX Commission meeting in Limburg, the Netherlands, CoR members exchanged views on the draft opinion “A Simpler, Clearer and Better Enforced EU Rulebook” pres...

 

03 May 2024 | Valladolid

Conservative regional leaders on defending European food sovereignty at ECR Study Days in Valladolid

With European elections only a month away, the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) Group in the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) today held its Study Days event to discuss how conservative-led regions and cities can help change the future of Europe. At a conference in Valladolid (Spain), politicians, academics and experts had the opportunity to exchange views on how to defend European agriculture in view of increasing environmental demands. The other main focus of the event was the just and impartial application of the Rule of Law, a concept which has been recently politicised by EU elites who have selectively applied it against those daring to question the status quo.

 

03 May 2024 | Valladolid

Environmental demands jeopardise existence of farmers and European food sovereignty

In an era where environmental demands are taking growing precedence, farmers are faced with costly and unrealistic challenges, which is significantly impacting agricultural production and thereby subjecting the entire sector to increasingly severe pressure. This has been demonstrated by the continuous waves of protests across Europe over recent months, and although the farmers are less on the streets, the crisis situation very much remains.

 

26 Apr 2024 | Brussels

Rapporteur Ádám Karácsony: Demography is Europe's third major transition

During the presentation of his working document to Members of the SEDEC Commission, ECR coordinator Ádám Karácsony underlined that the Green and Digital transition cannot be successful without the EU's policy agenda urgently addressing demographic decline, as demographic continuity "deeply affects the success of the twin transitions and the future of the EU".

 

19 Apr 2024 | Brussels

EU elections 2024 are a chance to address real concerns of people in rural areas

Speaking in a CoR plenary debate on rural areas in view of the European elections 2024, Mr Lorenzo Galligani stated that citizens in rural areas feel completely disconnected from the policy-making and decision-making in Brussels: "many do not even understand what's being asked of them especially when it comes to some of the most ideological policies of this mandate". Mr Galligani provided the example of the ban on the sale of combustion engine cars as of 2035 to illustrate his point.

 

19 Apr 2024 | Brussels

Roberto Ciambetti's opinion on tackling plastic pellet losses adopted by unanimity at CoR plenary

The President of the Veneto Regional Council, Mr Roberto Ciambetti, welcomed the new proposal for a regulation on preventing plastic pellet losses during, but underlines that the rules need to be "clear, certain and simple, so that they do not lend themselves to different interpretations by individual Member States and place excessive burden on the public administrations involved".

 

18 Apr 2024 | Brussels

EU must support families to reduce child poverty

In a plenary debate on strengthening the European child guarantee and child protection systems at the local and regional level SEDEC ECR Coordinator and recently appointed CoR Rapporteur on the Demographic Toolbox Ádám Karácsony stressed that child poverty is "not an isolated issue" but "deeply connected with the wellbeing of entire families".

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