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📌 The NAT Commission is meeting today 

The following opinions will be discussed and adopted:

🔹 Preparing for and dealing with crises: strengthening the resilience of the Union, its regions and cities
Rapporteur: Christophe CLERGEAU (FR/PES)

We experience more and more frequent and complex disasters. Cities, regions and countries are resilient when they are able to cope with, adapt and recover quickly from the impact of these disasters and emergencies. To effectively deal with crises, the EU needs a cross-cutting and systemic approach to ramp up prevention and preparedness efforts leading to strengthened overall resilience to crisis.

The opinion will aim to strengthen the still largely unacknowledged role of cities and regions in the EU crisis preparedness and management policies, analysing the existing EU actions and measures, looking at the vulnerabilities of EU regions and cities and the risks that they face, and making proposals to strengthen their resilience.

🔹 Legislative framework for Sustainable food systems
Rapporteur: Joke Schauvliege (BE/EPP)

F2F Strategy announced a horizontal framework law to ensure policy coherence at the EU and national level and mainstream sustainability in all food-related policies to strengthen the resilience of food systems, and accelerate green transition while ensuring that food placed on the EU market becomes sustainable. Members of the NAT commission will be looking into possible scope and building blocks of the framework law ahead of its publication foreseen in the second half of the 2023.

📑 Check out the full agenda.
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📌 External seminar: Tailoring cohesion policy responses to territories with specific needs: the case of the Outermost Regions
📍 Tenerife, Canary Islands
⏲️ 09:00-18:30 WET | 10:00-19:30 CET


The goal of this seminar is to further the implementation of the EU Strategy on the Outermost Regions on Putting people first, securing sustainable and inclusive growth, unlocking the potential of the EU’s outermost regions and to follow up on the related CoR opinions, through exchanges with representatives of cities, regions, European Union institution, experts from the EU, and civil society.

NOTE. This webinar is not webstreamed. Watch this space for updates from the attendees and stay tuned for the takeaways.
📷 The discussion
credit: © Gobierno de Canarias
credit: © Gobierno de Canarias
credit: © Gobierno de Canarias
credit: © Gobierno de Canarias

📷 Study visit of the Gregor Solar Telescope
🗨️ Reflections from Twitter
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🔴 The SEDEC Commission meets today

📝 This is on the agenda:
Opinions: 

Debates:
✅ Taking stock of the second year of implementation of the Joint Action Plan concluded with Commissioner Mariya Gabriel's services
Partnerships for Regional Innovation (PRI) – implementation and next steps

Presentations: 
Social Progress Index
Strengthening Cultural Heritage Resilience for Climate Change
✅EU Industrial and R&D Investment Scoreboard – the local and regional perspective
✅ "Erasmus Maris" project
💬 "No one is unemployable" says Yonnec Polet, rapporteur on the opinion on zero long-term unemployment. In our interview, he presents a project that aims to provide employment opportunities at a local level. 
👏 Anne Rudisuhli, Member of the Bouches-du-Rhône Departmental Council (FR), has been appointed as rapporteur for an upcoming opinion on “Mentoring: A powerful and meaningful tool for the Europe of tomorrow".
🗣️ Debate on the Partnerships for Regional Innovation (PRI) – implementation and next
steps

"Together with the regions and territories participating in this pilot action, we are ready to contribute with our experience and policy recommendations to the definition and implementation of future EU innovation policies for strong and interconnected regional innovation ecosystems. The CoR has also been engaging for the future of the European Research Area in the ERA Forum and several of CoR members' cities and regions participate in the EU Missions. We are looking forward to the launch of the regional innovation valleys, and expect them to build on these experiences, as announced in the Communication for a New European Innovation Agenda."

Tanya Hristova, Chair of the SEDEC commission and Mayor of Gabrovo

🗣️ Debate on the second year of implementation of the Joint Action Plan concluded with Commissioner Mariya Gabriel's services
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