Last Thursday 7 April, the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) concluded that there is “No successful reform of the Economic and Monetary Union without a regional dimension”. Indirectly, this means the EMU remains a system just to support the banking industry. In other words, the banks are still completely unregulated, high flying and counting […]
The Monetary Union drives Europe into dangerous paths, CoR demands an EMU of regional content
Filed Under: Economy, Policy Tagged With: bankers, Banking Union, banks, Berlin, Brussels, Committee of the Regions, CoR, crisis, EMU, European Commission, European Monetary Union, European Parliament, Finance, France, Germany, meltdown, Paris
The representatives of the regions and the cities know better what the EU needs on migration, trade, poverty and taxation
The 115th plenary of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) was convened on 3 and 4 December and discussed a number of burning issues, which have been haunting the European Union during the last difficult years. The CoR is the voice of regions and cities of the European Union. Its 350 members are the […]
Filed Under: Policy, Refugee Crisis, Regional, Trade Tagged With: aggressive tax planning, banking, cities, CoR, Corporate tax avoidance, Dimitris Avramopoulos, European Committee of Regions, Fair wages, François Decoster, harmful ‘tax competition’, healthcare, Helmuth Markov, immigration, Investors, Jean-Luc Vanraes, Lesbos, local and regional authorities, Mick Antoniw, poverty in work, Refugees, regions, Tax avoidance, tax fraud, tax incentives, TISA, Trade in Services Agreement, transport
EU will not deliver on promises without democratic accountability
The two main advisory bodies of the European Union, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) and the Committee of the Regions (CoR) expressed their anguish over the growing distance between Brussels and the Peoples of Europe. Last Thursday on the occasion of the plenary session of the EESC, its President Staffan Nielson invited Ramon […]
Filed Under: Employment & Social Affairs, Policy Tagged With: CoR, democratic deficit, EESC, EU, legitimisation, Nielson, Valcárcel Siso