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In the past year, the CoR website has seen a 33% increase in the number of unique visitors, up to 535,150, with more than 1 million pages viewed. Around two-thirds of EU legislation is implemented by local and regional authorities in Member States. The Committee of the Regions is a consultative...
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Socialists and Social Democrats in the Committee of the Regions (CoR) renewed today their confidence in the President, First Vice-President and Vice-Presidents of the PES Group. The Group's meeting was held ahead of the CoR Plenary Session marking the start of the second half of the institution's quadrennial term of...
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On Wednesday 6 February, the Committee of the Regions (CoR) will
elect a new President to serve for the second half of its current
four-year term, which runs to February 2010. The first plenary session
of the year, which will take place in the European Parliament, will
also see the election of the CoR's...
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On 29 January in Brussels, European Commissioner for Energy
Andris Piebalgs launched the ‘Covenant of Mayors', an initiative aimed at
securing the strong involvement of Europe's local governments in the EU's
efforts to reduce CO2 emissions and increase energy efficiency.
The ‘Covenant of Mayors' will give the mayors and leaders of
Europe's cities the...
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On 29 January, Slovenia, currently chairing the Union, became
the second member state to ratify the new EU treaty in its national parliament.
Hungary was the first. Out of 90 MPs, 74 voted for the treaty and only 6
members of a small right-wing Slovene National Party voted against after
previously tabling a proposal...
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Croatia's chief negotiator with the EU Vladimir Drobnjak
expressed, in his speach to MEPs on Tuesday (29 January), dissatisfaction with
the state of European Union membership
negotiations, claiming Croatia is not getting enough credit from the EU's side
for the pace at which it is carrying out internal reforms.
The state of the talks "does...
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