The Mediterranean regions, united in the face of the immigration humanitarian emergency
Last 20th of May, the Catalan Government’s Vice-President, Joana Ortega; the president of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region and former President of ORU, Michel Vauzelle, and Rosario Crocetta, President of Sicily and chairman of the Italian Comitato Permanente per il Paternariato Euromedite (COPPEM) met in Strasbourg (France) with the President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, to present the campaign 'We are all Mediterranean'.
MEDCOP21 opens the way forward towards COP21 in Paris
In the context of the XXI UN Conference of the Parties (COP21) that will be held in Paris from the 30th of November to the 11th of December 2015, the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (PACA) regional government, member of ORU’s Executive Bureau, has organised the MEDCOP21 – Mediterranean civil society forum towards the Paris COP21: towards an inclusive agenda of the Mediterranean stakeholders on the 4th and 5th of June in Marseille-Villa Méditerranée.
Chile moves towards decentralisation
The Senate of the Republic of Chile hosted, last 14th of May, the First National Seminar 'Conceptual and political framework for decentralisation', geared towards discussing the constitutional framework for the effective decentralisation of the country. ORU strongly supports this decentralisation process, which has achieved in the last decades considerable progress in the form of constitutional reforms and projects that have allowed the devolution of powers to regional governments. The last step in this process is the draft legislation that the...
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The remainder of 2015
The second half of 2015 is marked by an intense international agenda. The United Nations organizes two key events on which ORU’s members have been working for years: the review of the Millennium Development Goals and the Climate Change Conference, COP21. In the last few years, ORU has devoted great efforts to achieve the recognition of intermediate governments as stakeholders in the development and climate change policies.
The Paraguayan governors lead the decentralisation process
Nowadays, the Republic of Paraguay has one of the highest growth rates in the world (in 2010 growth rates were 14.5%, just behind Qatar and Singapore), as a result of an increased liberalization of its economy and a strong foreign direct investment. Paraguay is the largest American exporter of electrical power, the fourth soy exporter and the eighth beef exporter...
