Margalida Prohens, President of the Euroregion and of the Government of the Balearic Islands, calls for the new Pact for the Mediterranean to incorporate the island dimension and respond to the main challenges facing the territories of the Euroregion, and in particular the islands.
The Pyrenees-Mediterranean Euroregion, chaired by the President of the Government of the Balearic Islands, Margalida Prohens, participated on Wednesday, October 15, in the European Week of Regions and Cities (EWRC) in the political debate “New Pact for the Mediterranean: Challenges and Perspectives between Cohesion and Enlargement.”
The European Week of Regions and Cities (EWRC) is the main annual event organised in Brussels by the Committee of the Regions and the European Commission, during which cities and regions from across the European Union demonstrate their capacity to generate growth and employment, implement European cohesion policy, and demonstrate the importance of the local and regional levels for good European governance.
In this context, the members of the MEDCOOPALLIANCE, which brings together the Pyrenees-Mediterranean Euroregion, the Adriatic-Ionian Euroregion, the Conference of Peripheral and Maritime Regions (CPMR/CIM), and the Association of Mediterranean Cities (MedCities), organised this meeting in the European Parliament on October 16.
During the session, President Prohens participated with the Commissioner for the Mediterranean, Dubravka Šuica, the President of the Adriatic-Ionian Euroregion, Nikola Dobroslavić, and the Minister for European Union and External Action of the Catalan Government, Jaume Duch.
Margalida Prohens defended the key role of the Euroregions and the need for a specific approach for island regions within the new Pact for the Mediterranean. Mediterranean led by the European Commission. The President emphasised that the Mediterranean islands are rapidly facing all the major challenges that the new Pact seeks to address: the transformation of economic models towards sustainability, innovation, and the green transition; the effects of climate change, with increasingly extreme phenomena such as droughts and storms; and migratory pressure, which makes the islands the southern border of the European Union.
In this regard, the President emphasised the good understanding between the members of the Euroregion, made up of the Government of the Balearic Islands, the Generalitat of Catalonia, and the Occitania Region, to jointly defend their interests and address the shared challenges of the three territories so that the Pyrenees-Mediterranean Euroregion can be an active voice for the Mediterranean territories and the Mediterranean.
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