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

3 October, 2014 By Editor

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 ... Read More

AER helping regions to promote the fundamental rights on their territory

29 September, 2014 By Editor

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 ... Read More

AER’s quest in the United States

24 September, 2014 By Mathieu Mori

Following the invitation by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, to participate in the climate summit in New York on 24 September, AER was present with the R20 to reiterate the role ... Read More

AER Bureau and General Assembly

19 June, 2014 By Editor

The main annual meeting of AER attracted 300 members in Wroclaw (Dolnoslaskie–PL). Beside the statutory matters including the presentation of all AER activities or the changes to the rules of ... Read More

Next AER Summer Academy (SA) well on track

17 April, 2014 By Editor

Novi Sad and the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (RS) are ready to welcome 120 participants from 17 to 23 August 2014 to discuss and experience “Multicultural, Multiethnic and Multilingual regions ... Read More

White Paper on abuses and rights violations of Roma during the 1900s

17 April, 2014 By Editor

The Swedish Government has published a white paper that highlights abuses and rights violations of Roma in the 1900s. It highlights the mapping of Roma, sterilisation and taking custody of ... Read More

AER background note on Social Inclusion

9 December, 2013 By Editor

Social inclusion – What is it and what solutions for the regions? An Introduction for Regional Policy-makers Social inclusion is not some new, revolutionary topic or some last-minute challenge that ... Read More

Plenary session of Committee 1 – preparing 2014

6 November, 2013 By Johanna Pacevicius

One of the major events in the Committee 1 calendar, the Autumn Plenary Session gathered in Brussels on 6 November. During this fruitful meeting key steps were taken to strengthen ... Read More

Youth at the heart of the Committee 3 autumn plenary

31 October, 2013 By Johanna Pacevicius

AER Committee 3 held its autumn plenary meeting in Strasbourg at the invitation of the Alsace Region (FR) and Regional Councillor Lilla Merabet in charge of Youth. Youth was at the ... Read More

AER President at CALRE General Assembly

22 October, 2013 By Johanna Pacevicius

On 21-22 October, AER President Dr Hande Özsan Bozatli attended the General Assembly of the Conference of European Regional Legislative Assemblies (CALRE) in Brussels at the regional parliament of Brussels-Capital. Dr Hande Özsan Bozatli, who had ... Read More

AER President met European Commission President Barroso

6 June, 2013 By Editor

Hande Özsan Bozatli, AER President, met on 6 June the European Commission’s President José Manuel Barroso, together with the President of the Committee of the Regions (CoR) and the representatives from the ... Read More

Fall Plenary Meeting of the AER Youth Regional Network

17 November, 2012 By Editor

At their autumn plenary meeting on 8 & 9 October, the AER Youth Regional Network (YRN) met, for the first time, with the members of the recently established Alsace (F) ... Read More

REALM and the Europe 2020 Flagship Initiatives

1 November, 2012 By Editor

The Hampshire Adult and Community Learning led Grundtvig project (Accompanying Measures) entitled “Regional Adult Learning Multipliers and the Europe 2020 Flagship Initiatives” (REALM) held its fourth and final seminar in ... Read More

Regionalisation and democracy

10 October, 2012 By Editor

On 10 October AER has organised, in cooperation with the Congress of the Council of Europe and the Alsace Region, a Conference on “Regionalisation and Democracy.” Nearly 200 people attended ... Read More

Equality for all is everybody’s business

9 May, 2012 By Mathieu Mori

Vienna (A), 9 May 2012 9 May is Europe Day. It is on the 9th of May 1950 that Robert Schuman proposed to create a democratic and peaceful Europe, paving ... Read More