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07/05/2008
CEMR Policy Committee debates Charter of regional democracy and Balkans
The Policy Committee of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) met in Reykjavik on 5 April 2008. After a debate, the members of the Policy Committee have adopted CEMR's position on the draft charter of regional policy of the Congress of the Council of Europe ...

04/04/2008
Waste directive: "Local governments need flexible measures and achievable targets"
Though local and regional government must contribute to waste prevention and recycling , they must do so within a flexible framework. This is what the Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) calls for ahead of the vote on the revision of the waste directive by the European parliament's ...

31/03/2008
Transparency initiative: “Regions and municipalities are not private lobbyists!”
The Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) calls on the European Parliament to distinguish local and regional government from commercial and professional lobbyists in European legislation ...

17/03/2008
Consultation on the Green Paper on urban mobility: CEMR calls for better coordination and more support
The Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) has responded to the European Commission's consultation on the Green Paper on urban mobility "Towards a new culture for urban mobility" ...

14/03/2008
Common Agriculture Policy: CEMR disappointed by European Parliament's resolution
The Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) expresses serious reservations after the adoption by the European parliament of the resolution on “Health Check” of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) ...

29/02/2008
Social exlusion: CEMR calls for stronger role for local governement
"Do not do more, do better" to improve the involvement of local government to ensure that disadvantaged people are integrated in the job market in the long term. This is one of the main recommendations of the Council of European Municipalities ...

25/02/2008
CEMR Conference on gender equality: Local and regional governments call for more EU support
The final declaration of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions' (CEMR) conference on local actions for gender equality (Pisa, 20-21 February 2008) calls on the EU to do more to support equality of women and men ...

22/02/2008
Directive on waste: "Ambitious and achievable targets need to be set"
The Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) calls for ambitious and achievable prevention and recycling targets, in the light of the second reading of the waste directive. Prevention and recycling targets are ...

04/02/2008
The future cohesion policy should be based on “regional well-being” and subsidiarity
The future EU cohesion policy must be based on the principles of subsidiarity and territorial solidarity, but should also use a wider set of criteria for the allocation of funding. These are two of the main points in the response of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) to the ...

01/02/2008
DEXIA-CEMR's joint study: key figures on European local and regional government
DEXIA group and the Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) have published the second edition of their joint study on the state of local and regional authorities in Europe. This set of 12 factsheets includes the key figures on European local and regional government ...

25/01/2008
CEMR and urban mobility: “No need for new EU plans, harmonize existing ones instead!”
The political debate organised by the Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) on the Green Paper on urban mobility, on 24 January 2008 in Brussels, saw local and regional stakeholders call for more harmonization ...

23/01/2008
Erika oil spill ruling "a victory for local and national government!"
The Erika ruling might set a legal precedent in favour of Europe's local and regional government. French oil company Total has been found guilty of negligence that led to the sinking of the tanker Erika off the coasts of Brittany in 1999 ...

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