At its 48th General Assembly on Thursday 29 October, the Conference of Peripheral and Maritime Regions (CPMR) elected Dutchman Cees Loggen for a renewable term of two years.
The regional minister of the Noord-Holland Province was the only candidate to succeed Vasco Cordeiro, President of the Azores, who headed the organisation for six years. Cees Loggen, a member of the Political Bureau since 2016, has held the position of CPMR Vice-President in charge of climate and energy. As such, he has already confirmed that climate change will be one of the priorities of his mandate.
At the end of the General Assembly, the members adopted a political declaration in which they called for the regions to be genuinely taken into account in drawing up national plans, in particular in the context of the Recovery and Resilience Facility. The CPMR had already expressed its concerns on this subject in June (see EUROPE 12500/19).
To consult the political declaration: https://bit.ly/3kIJLpg (Original version in French by Pascal Hansens)