The present document provides a set of recommendations as commissioned by the Committee of the Regions (CoR) of the EU under the framework contract CDR/DE/191/2011: "Multilevel-governance of our natural capital: the contribution of regional and local authorities to the EU Biodiversity Strategy...

The aim of this report is to provide information for those local and regional authorities who have expertise in the field of financial services in order for them to influence the creation and effective functioning of a new system for supervising financial institutions. Another aim of this report...

This report investigates how regional and local authorities contribute to the objectives of the Europe 2020 strategy, using efforts to promote sustainable energy and climate mitigation as examples. It analyses experiences and best practices of local and regional authorities in transforming their...

In general the national progress reports do consider the role of local and regional authorities in the implementation of the Lisbon strategy. An assessment of the 27 national progress reports that Member States submitted in 2009 has identified the following five highly developed documents which...

Sustainable Development (SD) strategies have been developed on the EU level as well as in most EU Member States (by 2008, 26 EU Member States were expected to have adopted a National Sustainable Development Strategy). · Compared to the first EU SDS (Gothenburg Strategy), the renewed EU SDS...

Organised by the Committee of the Regions and the European Commission's Regional Policy Directorate-General under the heading 'Regions and cities in a challenging world', the 2008 OPEN DAYS mobilised roughly 300 institutional partners, whereof 216 regions and cities representing 32 European...

With more than 6,000 participants from around 40 countries, including all the EU member states, the candidate countries and Brazil, China, Iceland, Japan, Russia, Ukraine and the U.S.A., the OPEN DAYS - European Week of Regions and Cities 2009 brought together politicians, practitioners,...