The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) and the Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions (CPMR) stressed the importance of taking islands more into account in a debate on the Conference on the Future of Europe, in an online event on Tuesday 5 April.
Many island regions are calling for a European strategy for all European islands, and for an initiative that would be extended - beyond the Mediterranean islands - to the islands of the Baltic Sea and the North Sea.
The EU’s long-term...