Tanko Tamas

In recent weeks, it had become clear that the protection status of bears and wolves was no longer merely a domestic Romanian issue but had developed into a field of European political conflict. Decisions taken under the Bern Convention and…

In Brussels, the housing crisis came to the centre of the European Union’s attention. During the plenary session of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR), local leaders discussed European housing policy with Nadia Calviño, President…

Brussels, 2 July 2026 — The plenary session of the European Committee of the Regions has adopted an opinion that reframes the role of rural and mountain communities in global climate and biodiversity governance. For the first time in an…

Local realities must be heard in Brussels The Carpathian regions face challenges that cannot be solved from a distance. Mountain communities live every day with the consequences of large carnivore conflict, water-related climate risks,…

What happened in Brussels? At the 172nd Plenary Session of the Committee of the Regions, held on 2 July 2026, the opinion on the renewal of the Union Civil Protection Mechanism was adopted — incorporating amendments successfully…

At the 172nd plenary session of the European Committee of the Regions, held on 1 and 2 July 2026, the opinion on the 2030 Consumer Agenda was adopted. The adopted text states that small-scale and locally embedded production must not be…

The Committee of the Regions opinion on Union support for internal security brings local and regional realities closer to the EU decision-making process For many years, the European debate on internal security focused mainly on central…

What happened? On 2 July 2026, the European Committee of the Regions voted at its plenary session on its opinion concerning the EU's asylum, migration and integration support framework for the period 2028–2034. Csaba Borboly,…

Over the past months, I have been working on one of the most significant pieces of European Union legislation: the Global Europe Regulation, the framework through which the European Union will finance enlargement, neighbourhood policy,…

Borboly Csaba spent nine months working within the Committee of the Regions to ensure that the EU's Equality Strategy would not blur the distinction between two fundamentally different challenges. The result: several of his amendments…