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5th Black Sea Summit – Using existing bridges to rise above new walls

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Bucharest (RO), 3 October 2014 Bearing in mind the challenging political context that affects this area, the Assembly of European Regions (AER), at the kind invitation of the National Union of County Councils from Romania (UNCJR), held today its 5th annual Black Sea Summit in Bucharest, Romania. The 100 high level participants present during the Summit adopted the ‘Bucharest … [Read more...]

No money for renewables?

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Baia Mare, Maramures (RO), 2 October 2014  Regions4GreenGrowth provides recommendations on how to boost investments in RES & EE “The European Union (EU) aims to get 20% of its energy from renewable sources (RES) by 2020, as well as to cut 20% of Europe's annual primary energy consumption”. (Source: EC website.) The stakes are high, but unfortunately, the fact is that … [Read more...]

Cluster Excellence Programme

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Supported under COSME, this call aims to develop cluster organisations' capacity to provide more professional business services to SMEs, helping to strengthen the competitiveness of SMEs. More information here. … [Read more...]

Eco-conditionality of financial support

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Is your region a leader on the Eco-conditionality of financial support? Do you have good practices to share in this field? Eco-conditionality of financial support consists in granting funds in exchange for respect of good environmental practices. It is particularly relevant in the framework of the protection of environment, a major stake in the XXIst century. In the … [Read more...]

AER helping regions to promote the fundamental rights on their territory

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Regions are main stakeholders when it comes to promoting fundamental rights in their territory. The European Union Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) has published a very useful online toolkit to help public officials improve the protection and promotion of fundamental rights. The Training Academy organised in Brussels on 19 September allowed participants not only to get an … [Read more...]

EU funding social entrepreneurship

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As part of AER’s information cycle on European funding, this event which took place on September 18th, welcomed representatives from DG Research and Innovation, DG Regio, DG Markt and the European Investment Fund to present the different opportunities to develop social entrepreneurship in Europe’s regions. Participants learnt more about how the European Structural and … [Read more...]

AER welcomes the Juncker Commission

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Brussels (BE), 10 September 2014 The Assembly of European Regions (AER) happily welcomes the new Juncker Commission, to be approved by the European Parliament in October and to take office on 1 November. The new college of European Commissioners will shape European policy making for the next 5 years. Corina CRETU, new Commissioner for Regional Policy “On behalf of the … [Read more...]

Meetings with Committee of the Regions and European Commission Presidents

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Brussels (BE), 18 September 2014 Today, Dr Hande Özsan Bozatli, President of the Assembly of European Regions (AER), met the outgoing European Commission’s President Barroso for a final talk, together with the Presidents of the other main local and regional organisations*. AER President focused her speech on the cooperation in the Eastern Neighbourhood and the Black Sea area. … [Read more...]

Kick-off meeting of the “Joint Efforts to Combat Dropout” project

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11-12 September 2014, Västernorrland (SE) - The project "Joint Efforts to Combat Dropout" (JET CD), co-financed by the Erasmus+ programme, was launched in September 2014. 15 partner representatives from the partnership attended this event. The meeting aimed to confirm the project application, set up the management, agree on the communication and dissemination strategy and … [Read more...]

Keeping up the dialogue with regional organisations

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Acting Secretary General Mathieu Mori met on 9 September with the Secretary Generals of the Committee of the Regions, the Council of European Municipalities and Regions, the Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions and Eurocities. These meetings will take place on a regular basis in order to further the cooperation between our complementary organisations, to create … [Read more...]

Why subsidiarity will not function in Romania

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Gratian Mihailescu August 2014 The 
deficit 
of
 democracy: Why
 subsidiarity
 will
 not 
function
 in 
Romania The
 European
 Commission
 is
 highlighting
 the
 importance
 of
 bottom‐up
 governance
 in
 decision‐making
 process
 and
 subsidiarity
 principle 
is
 one
 of
 the
 central
 principles
 of
 EU 
which 
states 
that 
EU
 policy
 decisions 
should
 always
 be
 … [Read more...]

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