It is my firm belief, as president of the
Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR), that a lack of vision and a feeling of detachment from goings-on at EU level has led the population to become increasingly disillusioned.
The
Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) and one of its British member associations, the Local Government Association (LGA), welcome this outcome.
The
Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) states, in its opinion transmitted to the European Parliament's Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) on the proposed Late Payments Directive, that it is not fair to establish differentiated treatment for the public authorities compared with the private sector (see Europolitics 3855).
The signatories are: the Assembly of European Regions (AER), the Association of European Border Regions (AEBR), the Conference of European Regions with legislative power (REGLEG), the Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions (CPMR), the
Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR), Eurocities and the European Association of Elected Representatives from Mountain Regions (AEM) (more details in the next issue of Europolitics).
The
Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR), a European organisation of local and regional authorities based in Paris and Brussels, launched, on 16 June, a new version of its website (www.ccre.org) that can now be automatically translated into 27 languages.
The
Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) calls on the European Parliament and the Council to adopt the European Commission's proposal to make a further 1 billion available to spread high-speed internet access more widely across all regions of Europe, including rural areas.
In that respect, the CPMR differs from the
Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR), which regretted that this definition did not exist.
Following the Irish no' vote to the Lisbon Treaty, the
Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR, which comprises approximately fifty associations from local and regional governments in 37 countries) is calling for the acquis of the treaty to be preserved for local and regional governments.
The participants included Michel Delebarre, president of the Committee of the Regions, Geert Bourgeois, president of the Conference of European Regions with Legislative Power (REGLEG), Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, president of the Conference of European Regional Legislative Assemblies (CALRE), Claudio Martini, president of the Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions (CPMR), Lambert Van Nistelrooij, president of the Association of European Border Regions (AEBR), Riccardo Illy, president of the Assembly of European Regions (AER), Anders Knape, first vice-president of the
Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) and Richard Leese, member of the Executive Committee of Eurocities.
In a declaration adopted in Rhodes on 12 May, during the conference organised by the
Council of European Municipalities and Regions, European cities confirmed their attachment to the concept of twinning'.