Liberal Mayors Summit agrees Principles that Make a City Liberal
During the Liberal Mayors Summit twenty mayors from fourteen different European countries discussed and agreed a document setting out the Principles which make cities and local communities liberal, and the actions that a Liberal Mayor should take. They also shared...
Towards the circular economy: local and regional solutions to food waste
Reducing waste saves money and nature at the same time. This is a win-win situation. According to the European Commission around 88 million tonnes of food are wasted every year in the EU. The estimated cost is 143 billion euros. Wasteful production and consumption...
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...
