Members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Regional Development (REGI) unanimously supported on Tuesday 13 July (42 votes in favour) the own-initiative report by Younous Omarjee (The Left, France) which calls for the creation of an Atlantic macro-region to address the shortcomings of the 2013 action plan on the Atlantic maritime strategy.
Indeed, in his explanatory memorandum, the rapporteur notes the “weak results” of the action plan. In the report, the lack of budgetary...