"You can't have an economy if you don't have a community", says Jerry Lundy (IE/Fianna Fáil), who reviews the European Commissions' Atlantic Strategy in the European Committee of...
Bojana Zorić from Požega, Croatia, joins our group as our new trainee who will aid our policy officers until February 2018.Bojana Zorić obtained a Master’s degree in Russian...
"If we address the obstacles to cross-border trade and investment in services, we increase competition with more choice and better prices for customers while adding up to 1.7% to...
On Thursday 5 October our President Bart Somers welcomed almost 1,000 trainees of the European Commission. Bart Somers gave an inspirational speech in the European Parliament to...
"You The Atlantic strategy and its action plan identify the main areas for development for the blue economy – the sustainable use of ocean resources for economic growth,...
Debate on Catalonia Committee of the Regions Plenary – 10 October 2017 Intervention by Bart Somers (ALDE CoR President) Firstly, I want to condemn all acts of violence in...
Space isn’t irrelevant for regions nor is it too far away: space matters, whether through satellite navigation or Earth observation programmes. Space technologies, data and...
After the success of Erasmus for students, apprentices, young entrepreneurs, higher education professionals and journalists, ALDE's Vice-President in the European Committee of...
The Natural Resources Commission (NAT) remit includes the common agricultural policy, fisheries policy, food policy and consumer affairs, health policy and tourism. Martikainen...
Energy efficiency is crucially important for achieving Europe's climate and energy targets. The EU should therefore be more ambitious says rapporteur Michiel Rijsberman (NL/D66)...
Brexit: the impact on Ireland The ALDE Group in the CoR became the first delegation of the Committee of the Regions to visit Ireland to find out directly on the ground how Brexit...
Rebuilding trust in government with bottom-up policies At the ALDE Party Council meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia, our group looked into how to make public administration more...
