🔴Today, at the joint REGI–COTER annual meeting, MEPs and regional representatives stressed that cities and regions must be central to shaping and delivering EU’s priorities for the next budget.
With @EU_CoR
Read the joint press release👇
https://t.co/xp2Xt2FQd3
📌Joint @EP_Regional & COTER (@EU_CoR) meeting on the future of Cohesion policy and the role of regions and cities in shaping EU’s next budget.
🗓️Thursday, 9.00-11.00
📍European Parliament, ASP 1G3
🗣️Co-chaired by Dragoş Benea & Vasco Alves Cordeiro, w/ @RaffaeleFitto
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📌Joint @EP_Regional & COTER (@EU_CoR) meeting on the future of Cohesion policy and the role of regions and cities in shaping EU’s next budget.
🗓️Thursday, 9.00-11.00
📍European Parliament, ASP 1G3
🗣️Co-chaired by Dragoş Benea & Vasco Alves Cordeiro, w/ @RaffaeleFitto
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Busy week ahead for the European Committee of the Regions!🇪🇺
This week, the European Committee of the Regions will bring together the people who shape Europe where it’s felt most: in our cities, towns and regions.
📌On Thursday at 10.00, #EPlenary will discuss with Vice-President @RaffaeleFitto on the 🇪🇺 strategies for islands, coastal communities and outermost regions.
📺You can follow the debate live here: https://t.co/D1FlX3lGHU
✅@EP_Regional demand a stronger and tailored cohesion policy for eastern border regions facing Russia’s military aggression, hybrid threats and geopolitical pressure.
🗳️: 23⬆️, 2⬇️, 6↔️
🖊️@jacek_protas
📄Press release: https://t.co/nAHA0s3HGQ
✅@EP_Regional just adopted unanimously a report calling for future cohesion policy to uphold the ‘right to stay’ in EU cities, helping them address housing costs, security & demographic challenges and natural disasters.
🖊️@DenisNesci
📄Press release:
https://t.co/6KQbnIuLO0
🗓️ This week in @EP_Regional (1 October):
🗳️Votes (09.00)
▶️Resolution on the role of cohesion policy in implementing the EU agenda for cities, by @DenisNesci (ECR, IT)
▶️Resolution on cohesion policy for EU’s eastern border regions, by @jacek_protas (EPP, PL)
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🗓️ This week in @EP_Regional (1 October):
🗳️Votes (09.00)
▶️Resolution on the role of cohesion policy in implementing the EU agenda for cities, by @DenisNesci (ECR, IT)
▶️Resolution on cohesion policy for EU’s eastern border regions, by @jacek_protas (EPP, PL)
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🗣️Debates and presentations (after the votes)
▶️EU strategies for outermost regions and islands, with Commission's Vice President @RaffaeleFitto.
▶️Presentation of a study on competitiveness and cohesion funding for SMEs investing in critical technologies, by @PolicyREGI
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📢 On Thursday 1 October 2026, 11:00 we organise a study presentation at @EP_Regional. The study "SMEs in Critical Technologies: Enhancing Competitiveness Through Cohesion Policy Funds"
📚 More here: https://t.co/K2IuikrTv0
#Research4Committees#EUStudy
🇪🇺🇵🇹During their visit to Madeira, @EP_Regional MEPs discussed the impact of EU cohesion funding, the future of the policy & Madeira’s priorities for the next EU budget (MFF 2028-2034)
Read their concluding statement: https://t.co/4MGV971bm2
➡MEPs will meet w/ Regional Government President Miguel Albuquerque & Legislative Assembly President @Rubina_Leal
🎙️Press conference 23 Sep, 13:45 WEST @ Quinta Vigia, Funchal
@Europarl_PT
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🇵🇹Next week, @EP_Regional MEPs led by VP @YounousOmarjee visit Madeira to discuss the needs of outermost regions & cohesion investment into sustainable energy, innovation, economic growth & more
🗓️21-23 Sep
🔗Read more: https://t.co/0lVEEuEp0n
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📣Public hearing (Tue 14.30)
– The New European Bauhaus in the next MFF: new urban policies in the post-2027 MFF
Hearing agenda: https://t.co/9LqEwhOy9T
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⏰Tune in to @EP_Regional from 09:00:
https://t.co/Vb05kdF5zH
MEPs will discuss the response to natural disasters, wildfires and heatwaves, which have affected severalmember states this year
🎙️Debates (Tue a.m.)
- Natural disasters, heatwaves and summer wildfires affecting several Member States
–Strengthening cohesion policy for the EU's islands and coastal regions
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Hearing guest speakers: Iva Marčetić (University of Kassel); Danny Pio Murphy (@DBFL_Ireland); architect Ruth Schagemann; Werner Möller (@gropiusallee); Nicolas Gharbi (Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Foundation); @EUinmyRegion; and @EU_JRC
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📌This week in @EP_Regional (1 Sep)
🗳️Votes (Tue a.m.)
– @EP_Regional amendments to the 2027 EU Budget
– @EP_Regional opinion on budget expenditure tracking & performance framework by Raquel Garcia Hermida – van der Walle @RenewEurope
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📣Public hearing (Tue 14.30)
– The New European Bauhaus in the next MFF: new urban policies in the post-2027 MFF
Hearing agenda: https://t.co/9LqEwhOy9T
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