​On April 23, the Committee of the Regions' Commission for Economic and Social Policy (ECOS) held its meeting in Brussels. On this occasion, Dr Uno Silberg was appointed Rapporteur for the opinion on Green Paper on long-term financing of the European economy, scheduled to be adopted in the ECOS commission meeting in June and the CoR Plenary session in October.

The meeting saw the adoption of two new opinions and a presentation of the Sectorial Social Dialogue Committee on Local and Regional Government Sector. As part of the discussion on the working document on "CARS 2020: Action Plan for a competitive and sustainable automotive industry in Europe", Mrs Saima Kalev held a presentation of her opinion on Clean Power for Transport, scheduled to be adopted at the COTER commission meeting on May 7.

The next meeting of the ECOS commission will take place in Graz, Austria on 27 and 28 June.