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Regionalisation in Luxembourg: municipalities reign, but are merging

16 August, 2017 By Editor

The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, one of the world smallest countries, is located in North- Western Europe. It lost part of its territories to France (1659), Prussia (later Germany, 1815) ... Read More

The state of regionalisation in Romania

10 July, 2017 By Editor

Romanian administrative division into counties (judete) has been documented since the XIV century. In modern times, between 1918 and 1968, Romania’s administrative division suffered repeated changes. After World War II, ... Read More

Democratic innovation: are regions up for the challenge?

12 June, 2017 By Editor

OPINION PIECE by Valentin Dupouey Regions are, along with cities, the first ring of the democratic chain that links local to global, cities to continents, grassroots initiatives to global ... Read More

#RoR2017 – This week’s focus: Regions in Finland

12 June, 2017 By Editor

The article describes the Finnish regions from a number of different viewpoints. It delineates the overall politico-administrative architecture of Finland in order to place the regional councils in context. Thereafter ... Read More

European College of Cluny Summer Workshop – A few places left for Youth delegates!

7 June, 2017 By Editor

The European College of local self-government and territorial innovation is organizing from 5 to 11 July 2017 a Summer Workshop on “What’s going on with democracy in your corner of the ... Read More

MYFER Award jury meeting

16 May, 2017 By Editor

Today, Tuesday 16 May early in the morning the jury of the Most Youth Friendly European Region Award met in Brussels, Belgium. Together, they evaluated the 10 shortlisted applications. After passionate ... Read More

Decisions from the Executive Board in London

20 April, 2017 By Editor

The AER Executive Board (EB) met at the occasion of the Spring Committees Plenaries in London on 21 March for their first meeting in 2017. High on the agenda was the ... Read More

Youth mental health: pressing needs across Europe

30 March, 2017 By Johanna Pacevicius

On the occasion of the AER Spring plenaries, regional policy makers from wider Europe made a point on working together on the topic of youth mental health and improve regional ... Read More

AER saddened by Westminster attack

22 March, 2017 By Mathieu Mori

While AER members are in London, gathering for their committee plenary meetings, the news of a terrible attack shocked the world. Targeting the UK Parliament, a symbol of democracy, the ... Read More

Integrated care: tapping into social capital

2 February, 2017 By Johanna Pacevicius

Consent, Trust and Enablement in a Digital World In the framework of the ALEC 2017 AER organised a mutual learning workshop on social capital for integrated care. Dr. Michael Rigby, ... Read More

Women entrepreneurship and citizenship in Guadeloupe

23 January, 2017 By Editor

As women entrepreneurship is an important issue in which the Assembly of European Regions is involved, we featured the Youth Women Win project in one of our success stories from ... Read More

A stronger regional policy means a stronger Europe

16 January, 2017 By Johanna Pacevicius

Cohesion policy is essential for a strong Europe!

Last week European Commissioner Corina Cretu published an article on the need for Europe to build on territorial cohesion: “Cohesion Policy alone won’t heal Europe, but Europe won’t heal without ... Read More

Europe for Citizens: 2017 deadlines are published

15 December, 2016 By Luca Magri

The European project stands on the participation of their citizens. Without a feeling of ownership the European Union can not exist as we know. Based also on this consideration, the ... Read More

Inclusion and participation of European Citizens in host countries: call for proposals

15 December, 2016 By Luca Magri

Democracy is the core of our living together and the civic and political participation its more natural expression. Since several years the European Commission and the other European Institutions have ... Read More

EU Cohesion Policy and its governance: an academic debate

26 November, 2016 By Editor

On 9 November 2016, the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) organised a conference to present and debate on the “Handbook on Cohesion Policy in the EU”, edited by Prof ... Read More

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