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Brussels/Bratislava – Pan-European conferences on the EU Committee of the Areas are at all times a great alternative to foyer for the pursuits of metropolitan areas, equivalent to Bratislava. This was said on Thursday by Juraj Droba, chairman of the Bratislava self-governing area (BSK), on the conclusion of the twenty second European Week of Areas and Cities in Brussels. That is reported by the TASR correspondent.
On Monday (7.10.) night, as a part of the Areas Week, Droba opened a ceremonial reception devoted to the twentieth anniversary of the European Union’s enlargement in 2004. The host of the occasion was the Chairman of the Committee of the Areas, Vasco Alves Cordeiro, and among the many honorary visitors of the ceremonial reception was additionally the Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms, Elisa Ferreira.
Droba said that the representatives of those international locations on the occasion recalled not solely what they’ve succeeded in reaching over the previous 20 years but in addition identified different challenges that the EU should tackle sooner or later.
“We talked lots a few sustainable setting, transport, the residing setting, and the necessity for high quality schooling. That is what we focus most on in our self-governing area,” Droba defined. On Thursday, he additionally attended a political working assembly with representatives of Helsinki, Amsterdam, and Dublin.
“We talked about easy methods to sustainably handle a metropolis and area. It connects us that we’re metropolitan areas. All 4 cities are from half 1,000,000 to 1,000,000 inhabitants, and we’re all from comparatively medium-sized international locations of 5 to fifteen million inhabitants,” he stated.
He specified that Thursday’s discussions had been targeted, for instance, on social housing and the competitiveness of the EU, the place Droba expressed his essential view of labor legal guidelines in member international locations, which he believes ought to be considerably “relaxed”.
The longer term European Fee will introduce a novelty in that one of many commissioners will likely be tasked with the housing coverage within the EU. In response to a TASR query about how he perceives this by means of his participation within the Committee of the Areas, which is an advisory physique of the European Fee, Droba pointed to the plan of the mayor of Bratislava, who desires to assist younger households within the metropolis discover socially supported housing.
“As a area, we are going to very limitedly search for housing that will likely be supported and can primarily be for lecturers and docs. It’s such a European development that I considerably resist. My common sense logic tells me to moderately give an individual 700 euros in hand, allow them to resolve for themselves what to do with it, than to say that you’ve a three-member household, so you have to have a two-room condo,” Droba defined his stance.
The European Week of Areas and Cities is the most important annual occasion devoted to EU regional coverage and cohesion coverage. (October 10)
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