Download or read book The Political Priorities of the European Committee of the Regions 2015 2020 written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Committee of the Regions brings together political representatives from the levels of government closest to citizens of the European Union: regional, municipal and local councils. This proximity to local experience gives it a unique position on the EU's landscape, and the Committee's political programme for 2015-20 shows its closeness to the concerns of ordinary people. These priorities were agreed unanimously in the June 2015 Plenary for the first time for the entire five year mandate. The Committee's top priority is to kick-start Europe's economy. To achieve its goal of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, the EU needs to involve local and regional authorities more deeply. Smart investment should be based on local needs, draw on best practice at the grassroots level and encourage a new entrepreneurial spirit across Europe. The EU's efforts to boost growth should consider the opportunities offered by new digital technologies.^The second priority is to ensure that growth is broadly based across Europe. The Committee will help to narrow the knowledge gap between regions and cities as a means of reducing the urban/rural divide. It will assess what impact EU legislation has on the ground, including the impact on cities. It will encourage cross-border cooperation, through the European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC). Cohesion policy is the one of the main tools that the EU has, and effective use of that policy is a central concern of the Committee. Developing trust of the EU at the local level is the third priority of the European Committee of the Regions. It will promote the role of local government in European policymaking, it will help the EU make the business environment friendlier, and it will explain the benefits of the Union at the local level.^Local governments in the EU can help stabilise countries in the EU's neighbourhood: this is the fourth priority of the European Committee of the Regions. It will help develop economic and political ties with the six post-Soviet states in the EU's Eastern Partnership. It will explore what can be done at the local level to promote cooperation with countries around the Mediterranean, and it will help would-be members of the EU to prepare for membership. What is the role of the EU citizen in all of this? The fifth priority of the European Committee of the Regions is to strengthen the EU's relationship with its citizens. A fuller, richer dialogue is needed between the EU's institutions, its citizens and local and regional authorities. The European Committee of the Regions will demonstrate how the EU can improve the lives of individuals and their communities.^Economic growth, a strong local economy, a stronger local voice in policymaking, a more stable international and regional environment, and a fuller voice in EU affairs: these are concerns that the average EU citizen has and that the European Committee of the Regions will pursue to achieve.

Download or read book Bringing Europe Closer to People written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local and regional authorities, represented in the EU by the European Committee of the Regions, have always been the backbone of European democracy. The recent COVID-19 pandemic showed local and regional leaders as the driving force of local communities, responding during the emergency and leading the EU's recovery. Bringing Europe closer to people through its villages, cities and regions will therefore be the primary mission of our Committee achieved through three main priorities.

Download or read book Political Priorities of the Committee of the Regions written by Committee of the Regions and published by Brussels : European Communities. This book was released on 1998 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The European Fund for Strategic Investments The Legacy written by European Investment Bank and published by European Investment Bank. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inside story of the European Fund for Strategic Investments from 2015 to 2020 told through interviews with the Managing Director, Deputy Managing Director, members of the Investment Committee and final beneficiaries across Europe. The architects of this €500 billion-plus programme, the head of the EU bank and the president of the European Commission, describe the genesis of this financial pillar of the Investment Plan for Europe. Then the people who ran one of the biggest economic stimulus programmes in history detail how they did it—and what the lessons are for policymakers responding to new crises, including the economic shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The European Fund for Strategic Investments has been one of the good news stories to emerge in a decade of economic uncertainty. It has gone well beyond its highly ambitious target of €500 billion in mobilised investments. The Juncker Plan has made a strong contribution to the 14 million jobs created in the EU between 2015 and 2020. It has become a success in co-financing projects that otherwise might not have been carried through. It has also charted the path towards new ways of financing. This is not only the case in relatively conventional areas, such as infrastructure, but also in sectors like research and innovation or the contribution to climate change mitigation. This is exactly what makes EFSI so ground-breaking: responding to the needs of the market through continuous financial innovation. The principle of the European Fund for Strategic Investments is here to stay. It has paved the way for its successor, the InvestEU programme, which is to be deployed under the 2021-2027 multiannual financial framework. This publication details why the programme was such a success.

Download or read book 2023 Annual Operational Working Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Committee of the Regions (the CoR) is a Political Assembly composed of 658 elected representatives of Local and Regional Authorities (LRAs) (329 Members and 329 Alternates), representing one million EU politicians elected at local and regional level. The Committee contributes to the EU policy shaping and decision-making process from the viewpoint of the LRAs. At the same time, the Committee's Members contribute to make the Union more effective and closer to the citizens by implementing EU law and communicating on the Union's policies on the ground. LRA are responsible for one third of public spending and two thirds of public investment hold competencies in key areas such as education, economic development and cohesion, environment, social protection, health and services of general interest in many Member States. Furthermore, the LRAs are also implementing about 70% of European legislation and programmes. Cooperation between the local, regional, national and European levels is the best response to common challenges. A European Union that takes into account local and regional needs and concerns, increases the legitimacy of its legislation, improves ownership and achieves greater added-value and effectiveness on the ground for the benefit of citizens. To this end, the CoR works closely with the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union, as well as with the various tiers of government in the Member States. The present CoR Annual Operational Working Plan for 2023 is marked by the implementation of the political priorities that were adopted by the CoR for its 2020-2025 term of office. These priorities are streamlined into the work of all the CoR's bodies and guide its outreach and communication activities.

Download or read book Europe it is All of Us written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Union is not only a union of nation states, but also a union of regions and cities. The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) is the only European institution through which regional and local politicians participate in European decision-making processes. Its task is to assess in concrete terms how European Union legislative projects will affect citizens in the regions and cities. The members of the CoR are committed to ensuring that the concerns, needs and challenges of the regions and cities and thus of the citizens on the ground are heard in Brussels. The 24 full and 24 alternate members of the German delegation to the CoR are representatives of the Länder and local authorities, legitimised by elections. They vote on CoR decisions in the plenary assembly. At the same time, they participate actively in the six CoR commissionsss and constitute three members of the CoR Bureau, which decides on the CoR's political priorities. In this brochure, we present the members of the German delegation and their work in the CoR. The brochure is published on the occasion of the German Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the second half of 2020. The agenda of this Presidency is focused on issues that will have an impact well beyond the six months of the German Presidency. Major challenges set the course for the future of the European Union. The Conference on the Future of Europe is a key instrument and a unique opportunity for the European Union to reflect on its future structure, its political objectives and the relationship with its citizens. For the CoR, the key question is the role of regions and cities in the future European Union. Regional and local politicians play a crucial role in the relationship between the European Union and its citizens. Metaphorically speaking, they are the hinge between these two levels. The members of the CoR combine their regional or local function in their home country with the task of making their expertise and the voice of the people on the ground heard in European politics. At the same time, they communicate the political decisions of the European Union to the regional and local level. In my view, the European Union can only become stronger if greater importance is attached to this mediating function of regional and local politicians in its future structure.

Download or read book The European Commission of the Twenty First Century written by Hussein Kassim and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Co-authored by an international team of researchers and drawing on interviews with senior officials, The European Commission of the Twenty-First Century tests, challenges and refutes many widely held myths about the Commission and the people who work for it.

Download or read book Improving Healthcare Quality in Europe Characteristics Effectiveness and Implementation of Different Strategies written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, developed by the Observatory together with OECD, provides an overall conceptual framework for understanding and applying strategies aimed at improving quality of care. Crucially, it summarizes available evidence on different quality strategies and provides recommendations for their implementation. This book is intended to help policy-makers to understand concepts of quality and to support them to evaluate single strategies and combinations of strategies.

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Download or read book Social policy in the European Union state of play 2015 written by David Natali (OSE) and published by ETUI. This book was released on 2015-09-23 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixteenth edition of Social policy in the European Union: state of play has a triple ambition. First, it provides easily accessible information to a wide audience about recent developments in both EU and domestic social policymaking. Second, the volume provides a more analytical reading, embedding the key developments of the year 2014 in the most recent academic discourses. Third, the forward-looking perspective of the book aims to provide stakeholders and policymakers with specific tools that allow them to discern new opportunities to influence policymaking. In this 2015 edition of Social policy in the European Union: state of play, the authors tackle the topics of the state of EU politics after the parliamentary elections, the socialisation of the European Semester, methods of political protest, the Juncker investment plan, the EU’s contradictory education investment, the EU’s contested influence on national healthcare reforms, and the neoliberal Trojan Horse of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

Download or read book A Guide to EU Funding written by European Commission and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to the evolution of the world economy and its impact on Europe, the European Commission proposed a set of programmes to boost jobs, growth and investment across the European Union. The programmes are part of the multiannual financial framework 2014-2020. This publication guides you through these programmes and the funding opportunities they offer are briefly described here in this booklet. Detailed information is available on the European Commission's website. EU funding opportunities prove the added value of the EU budget in a number of fields, from research, employment, regional development and cooperation to education, culture, environment, humanitarian aid and energy, among many others. Significant support is available to small and medium-sized businesses, non-governmental and civil society non-profit organisations, young people, researchers, farmers and public bodies, to name a few.

Download or read book Regional Innovation Ecosystems written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is produced by the Members of the European Committee of the Regions in close collaboration with Europe's cities and regions. The book is all about pioneering cities and regions - or reviewing the content of the book from activities perspective: about regional innovation ecosystems. In recent years it has increasingly become apparent that only through sharing knowledge and working in partnership it is possible to create truly competitive and sustainable economies meeting the needs of the 21st century. In order to achieve this, the European Union can and must work with and for our citizens. For this to happen we need to achieve a change in mindset. This publication therefore seeks to stimulate bench-learning between regions and cities, sparking new ideas and fundamentally stirring economic development. Presenting some of the most inspiring projects across the EU, this book offers readers an opportunity to understand and explore how Europe's cities and regions are breaking new ground in regional development. The European Committee of the Regions is the EU's Assembly of 350 regional and local representatives from all 28 Member States, representing over 507 million Europeans. This book is an essential part of the process of implementing our political priorities for 2015-2020 and giving Europe's citizens the fresh start they need. In order to overcome its current challenges, Europe must establish a culture of co-creation and break its boundaries by moving towards entrepreneurial discovery, open innovation, experimentation and action.

Download or read book The European Union written by Kristin Archick and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Union (EU) is a political and economic partnership that represents a unique form of cooperation among sovereign countries. The EU is the latest stage in a process of integration begun after World War II, initially by six Western European countries, to foster interdependence and make another war in Europe unthinkable. The EU currently consists of 28 member states, including most of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, and has helped to promote peace, stability, and economic prosperity throughout the European continent. The EU has been built through a series of binding treaties. Over the years, EU member states have sought to harmonize laws and adopt common policies on an increasing number of economic, social, and political issues. EU member states share a customs union; a single market in which capital, goods, services, and people move freely; a common trade policy; and a common agricultural policy. Nineteen EU member states use a common currency (the euro), and 22 member states participate in the Schengen area of free movement in which internal border controls have been eliminated. In addition, the EU has been developing a Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), which includes a Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP), and pursuing cooperation in the area of Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) to forge common internal security measures. Member states work together through several EU institutions to set policy and to promote their collective interests. In recent years, however, the EU has faced a number of internal and external crises. Most notably, in a June 2016 public referendum, voters in the United Kingdom (UK) backed leaving the EU. The pending British exit from the EU (dubbed "Brexit") comes amid multiple other challenges, including the rise of populist and to some extent anti-EU political parties, concerns about democratic backsliding in some member states (including Poland and Hungary), ongoing pressures related to migration, a heightened terrorism threat, and a resurgent Russia. The United States has supported the European integration project since its inception in the 1950s as a means to prevent another catastrophic conflict on the European continent and foster democratic allies and strong trading partners. Today, the United States and the EU have a dynamic political partnership and share a huge trade and investment relationship. Despite periodic tensions in U.S.-EU relations over the years, U.S. and EU policymakers alike have viewed the partnership as serving both sides' overall strategic and economic interests. EU leaders are anxious about the Trump Administration's commitment to the EU project, the transatlantic partnership, and an open international trading system-especially amid the Administration's imposition of tariffs on EU steel and aluminum products since 2018 and the prospects of future auto tariffs. In July 2018, President Trump reportedly called the EU a "foe" on trade but the Administration subsequently sought to de-escalate U.S.-EU tensions and signaled its intention to launch new U.S.-EU trade negotiations. Concerns also linger in Brussels about the implications of the Trump Administration's "America First" foreign policy and its positions on a range of international issues, including Russia, Iran, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, climate change, and the role of multilateral institutions. This report serves as a primer on the EU. Despite the UK's vote to leave the EU, the UK remains a full member of the bloc until it officially exits the EU (which is scheduled to occur by October 31, 2019, but may be further delayed). As such, this report largely addresses the EU and its institutions as they currently exist. It also briefly describes U.S.-EU political and economic relations that may be of interest.