WE
ARE NOT NGOs, WE ARE REGIONS
The first “International
Conference for a Territorial Approach to Development”
organised by the UNDP, the CPMR and Provence-Alpes-Côte
d’Azur Region, marks the beginning of the United Nations’
recognition of the regional dimension. Up until that point,
the United Nations likened us, regional governments, to NGOs.
Regionalisation, even where it progresses with difficulty,
constitutes a global development. It is time that the United
Nations took measure of regionalisation, for it is not opposed
to national governments which are a framework of social cohesion,
solidarity and preservation of collective interest. It is
not a source of State weakening, except if it is considered
as likely to encourage the dismantling or disintegration of
public authorities. On the contrary, it has to be a public
tier of government enabling better coordination of public
action..
Michel
Vauzelle
President of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Region
President of the Inter-Mediterranean Commission
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MARTINI:
ENERGY IS A PRIMARY COMMODITY
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Propos
recueillis par Enrico Mayrhofer
On
10th January 2007, the European Commission presented the “Energy
Packet”, a series of measures aimed at reducing carbon
emissions, at encouraging energy saving and renewable energies
and at taking note of the current climate change.
Claudio
Martini, President of the Tuscan regional government and the
Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions (CPMR) is satisfied
with the European proposal to cut greenhouse gas emissions by
20% by 2020, as well as with its request to member States to
produce at least 20% of energy from renewable sources, but hopes
that the Regions will be more involved in any future deliberations
regarding energy...
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BRITTANY
WORKS ON THE SOCIAL DIMENSION OF A EU MARITIME POLICY
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In
order to continue to feed into the contribution to the European
Green Book on a future maritime policy for the EU, the Regional
Council of Brittany will organise, on Friday 9 March 2007, a
European seminar on the social aspects of a maritime policy.
The objective of this event is to enable a great number of European
stakeholders meet (members of European Parliament, unions and
other professional organisations, European commission, national
and local authorities, research centres) to discuss the main
issues raised by the social aspects of maritime policies: education,
working conditions, labour regulations....
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