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A stronger territorial approach to internal security
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…
Harghita County’s Cause Has Entered the European Debate
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,…
Global Europe: How Harghita County Can Get on the Map of European Decision-Making
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,…
No Ostrich Politics. I Fought to Prevent Brussels from Conflating Indigenous Minorities with LGBTQ+…
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…
Mountain Regions, Minorities and Small Settlements: How CoR Amendments Are Shaping the ESF 2028–2034
The European Social Fund 2028–2034 is being decided now. At the CoR plenary today, an opinion was adopted that incorporates amendments addressing some of the most persistent blind spots in EU social policy: mountain regions, national and…
Borboly: EU accession must be built with local authorities, not delivered to them afterwards
Local and regional authorities must play a central role in preparing candidate countries for EU membership, Csaba Borboly, Chair of the European Committee of the Regions' Working Group on Bosnia and Herzegovina, Vice-President of Harghita…
Local Authorities Are Not Just Implementers. They Are the Point.
Today I took part in a high-level seminar at the European Committee of the Regions, organised by SALAR International — the international arm of the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions — on the theme: "Preparing Locally for…
Youth Housing Must Become a Real Priority Beyond Europe’s Big Cities
Young people cannot be expected to stay, work and start families in their home regions if access to housing remains too expensive, too slow and too complicated. This was the message delivered by Borboly Csaba, Vice-President of Harghita…
Transport Poverty Is Now Part of Europe’s Transport Vision. What Comes Next Matters for Every…
Some things take years to build. Some things are decided in a single day. This week in Brussels was both at once.
The Committee on Territorial Cohesion and EU Budget (COTER) of the European Committee of the Regions adopted its opinion on…
A European Success: All Harghita County Proposals Adopted in the New European Bauhaus Opinion
On 22 June 2026, the SEDEC Commission of the European Committee of the Regions held its ninth meeting in Trnava, at an away session. The agenda included the debate on the draft opinion on the New European Bauhaus. Csaba Borboly,…