Ar an 6 Nollaig d'áitigh ceannairí réigiúnacha agus áitiúla ar an Aontas Eorpach bearta a dhéanamh chun an tionchar a bheadh ag tarraingt siar na Ríochta Aontaithe a mhaolú, agus foráil a dhéanamh do bhuiséad an Aontais Eorpaigh a chuirfeadh borradh faoi na geilleagair réigiúnacha. Iarradh an méid sin le linn díospóireacht sa Bhruiséil le Michel Barnier, agus moladh Príomhidirbheartaí an Aontais Eorpaigh leis an Ríocht Aontaithe as comhaontú a thabhairt i gcrích lena gcuirtear srian leis na rioscaí le haghaidh an Aontais agus Phoblacht na hÉireann, go háirithe, agus as an obair for-rochtana a rinne sé leis na cathracha agus na réigiúin le linn na gcaibidlíochtaí.

Olga Zrihen, the vice-president of the Belgian senate and a member of the Walloon parliament, has been chosen by Europe's regions and cities to champion policies that strengthen local economies.

The members of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) reject the European Commission's proposal to divert money from cohesion policy to finance top-down structural reforms in the Member States. The opinion , drawn up by Olga Zrihen (BE/PES), Member of the Walloon Parliament and adopted during the CoR plenary session, further highlights the importance of adopting a mixed bottom-up and top-down approach involving local and regional authorities in the design and implementation of reform processes.

On 22 March Dimitris Avramopoulos, European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship, will discuss progress of the European Union's migration agenda with local and regional politicians, many of whom host refugees and new arrivals from the Middle East and North Africa. The migration debate kicks off the European Committee of the Regions' plenary session in Brussels that will also focus on the EU's possible enlargement to the Western Balkans. Johannes Hahn, the EU's Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy & Enlargement Negotiation, will participate in the debate.