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...
Following our Liberal Mayors Summit success, we are organising a Summit of Young Elected Local and Regional Leaders. The summit aims at providing an opportunity for young liberal...
Social innovation is a new approach which can be a key instrument for combating youth unemployment, bringing people with greater difficulties into the labour market and...
Bart Somers, 2016 World Mayor prize winner, pays tribute to Dr Benjamin Barber, author of If Mayors Ruled the World, and founder of the Global Parliament of Mayors "Barber was an...
Our President participated in the International Dialogue on Migration 2017 organised by the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM) in New York. The event gathers key...
Discover how our President Bart Somers, our first Vice-President Ulrika Landergren and our second Vice-President François Decoster celebrate the sixty years of the Treaty of Rome...
