The Commission for Citizenship, Governance, Institutional and External Affairs (CIVEX) is responsible for coordinating the Committee of the Regions' work on constitutional and institutional issues, including the future of Europe, local democracy and devolution, active subsidiarity and better law-making; the area of freedom, security and justice, including issues such as migration and integration, fundamental rights and freedoms and active citizenship; and the EU's external dimension, focusing on enlargement and neighbourhood countries and on development cooperation from a local and regional angle.