


Don’t get stuck at the border
Bridging missing links in border regions for all transport modes – road, rail and water – will open up new opportunities for citizens and businesses, boosting employment and tourism, says Michiel Scheffer. Whether you’re a student, tourist, businessmen,...
Water management: thirsty for innovation
Climate change and intensification of land-use present major challenges for our water management. Cees Loggen (NL / VVD) sets out to improve the implementation of EU water legislation with innovative solutions. Climate change is the defining issue of our generation,...
Keeping it simple shouldn’t be difficult
How REFIT wants to keep EU laws simple and less costly EU laws should be as simple and reduce the costs of regulation, so that citizens, businesses and authorities can reap the intended benefits of them in the easiest and most straightforward way. To achieve this, the...
Turlais welcomes modernization and simplification of VAT rules
The members of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) broadly support the European Commission’s move to modernise VAT in the EU through an opinion prepared by Dainis Turlais (LV) and adopted during the October plenary. The Action Plan on VAT by the...