European cohesion policy: A key tool to make sustainable development become reality throughout EU’s regions, Brussels - Main contents
date | February 7, 2019 |
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city | Brussels, Belgium |
location | Altiero Spinelli building (ASP) i |
attending | (Udo) Bullmann i, (Constanze) Krehl i, (Mercedes) Bresso i, (Eric) Andrieu i, (Andrea) Cozzolino i et al. |
organisation | Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) i |
No territory and No people left behind
European Cohesion policy: A KEY TOOL TO MAKE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT BECOME REALITY THROUGHOUT EU’S REGIONS
The goal of this event is to further disseminate and develop the policy approach already outlined in the ICSE report by producing a “Progressive Declaration for Sustainable and United European Territories”.
The event is organized in close collaboration with the PES Group in the European Committee of the Regions, building on the dynamics of contacts established with other actors, including the Cohesion Alliance
The contribution of this declaration will be to bring forward a renewed vision for cohesion, embedded in new European solidarity, in the implementation of SDG goals at local and regional levels (which a number of local, urban and regional entities already do), and in a place-based and participatory approach through local empowerment, that will also be used as a contribution to the PES Manifesto.
It will show that, in the context of globalization, EU cohesion policy should be a powerful driver to sharpen the European identify and should be based on a European vision of what sustainable development should be by taking into account on equal footing environmental, social and economic considerations.
The Declaration would be discussed and then launched at the end of the conference. It will be the result of an interactive discussion with regional and local, urban and rural leaders and actors (of which mayors and municipalities) on how to frame EU policy and in particular EU cohesion policy to ensure that no territories and no people shall be left behind.
Local and regional authorities are frontrunners in the implementation of the SDGs (see collection of practices by Progressive Society on “ecological transformation as a social lever”). They are a laboratory of innovative local development logics that can be even better supported or triggered by the EU budget, and in particular (but not only) cohesion policy.
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S&D PRESS CONTACT
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