​European Committee of the Regions' (CoR) Commission for Citizenship, Governance, Institutional and External Affairs (CIVEX) held its 19th meeting on 10 July 2018 in Brussels.

The members held an exchange of views on the draft opinion on the European Commission's Enlargement Package 2018 and a debate on the MFF proposal from the perspective of CIVEX commission's remits, especially the proposed Asylum and Migration Fund as well as financial instruments for developing, neighbourhood and enlargement countries.

In the afternoon, the members discussed and adopted draft opinion "Reflecting on Europe: the voice of local and regional authorities to rebuild trust in the European Union." The opinion, drafted upon referral by the President of the European Council Donald Tusk, has been prepared jointly by CoR's President Karl-Heinz Lambertz and First Vice President Markku Markkula and is a product of a number of surveys and debates with citizens across the continent, which have been taking place since 2016. The opinion is set to be adopted at the CoR plenary in October 2018.

EA group was represented at the meeting by coordinator Dariusz Wróbel, Cllr Anthony Buchanan, Cllr Declan McDonnell, Mr Stanisław Szwabski and Mr Karim Van Overmeire.