Addressing the CoR Plenary today, Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council, focussed on the role that local and regional authorities can play in tackling the challenges for growth and jobs in the European Union and called on national governments to ensure that regions are involved ahead ..."These proposals on the EU Financial Instruments on Home Affairs are a genuine attempt to create instruments that are stronger and which respond to the needs of those working in the fields of asylum, migration and security. They are of great importance for local and regional authorities as t... Governance and partnership, macroeconomic conditionality, flexibility, performance reserve and demographic challenge are the key words from the first reading of the European Parliament report on the General Regulations in the REGI Committee today, according to Michael Schneider, President of the EPP ... |