Tanko Tamas

At today’s joint event of the European Committee of the Regions and Cedefop, I argued for a simple principle: local and regional authorities must help shape European skills policy from the beginning, not merely implement decisions made…

Europe will not become stronger by allowing two Europes to emerge. One Europe cannot concentrate investment, innovation and good jobs, while another loses young people, businesses and trust. Competitiveness must strengthen the whole Union,…

Europe’s cloud and AI ambitions will represent genuine progress only if every region can benefit. Csaba Borboly made this point during the meeting of the European Committee of the Regions ECON Commission in Galway on 6 October 2026, where…

I came to Galway because Europe’s digital future must not be shaped without the regions that will have to deliver it. At today’s meeting of the Commission for Economic Policy of the European Committee of the Regions, we discussed the…

The debate on the EU Industrial Maritime Strategy confirmed that a stronger European maritime industry must connect coastal hubs with inland, rural, mountain and eastern regions. During the ECON meeting of the European Committee of the…

Young people in Eastern and Western Europe deserve the same freedom to build a dignified life, whether they choose to stay, move or return home.

Young people need more than a single support programme to build their future at home. They need a predictable start in life: affordable housing, decent jobs, opportunities for professional development, functioning transport and a community…

Europe should not have one future for regions that shape technological and economic change and another for those left to manage its consequences. Following discussions at the European Committee of the Regions on the social economy and…

Europe cannot afford a social economy that works smoothly in its strongest regions but remains difficult to access in its rural, peripheral and eastern communities. At the European Committee of the Regions in Brussels, I called for a…

Artificial intelligence, digitalisation and the green transition are reshaping work across Europe. At the meeting of the European Committee of the Regions’ SEDEC commission, I argued that Europe must respond to these changes as one Union.…