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The Renovation Wave (COM/2020/662 final) aims at doubling yearly energy-related renovation rates across the European Union. The initiative has three focus areas, namely “tackling energy poverty and worst-performing buildings”, “public buildings and social infrastructure”, “decarbonising heating ...

This report investigates the impact of Brexit on EU LRAs, focusing on the potential effects of the EU-UK Trade Cooperation Agreement (TCA) entered into force in 2021. It provides an extensive analysis on the new EU-UK relations, illustrating the main characteristics of the TCA and reviewing the ...

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated fragmentations between societal groups and between places. It risks reinforcing existing imbalances and inequalities in the EU. The worst and most direct impacts have been avoided by swift policy actions. In this context Cohesion Policy played a role. The swift ...

The study “Providing public transport services in cross-border regions – mapping of existing services and legal obstacles” includes a toolbox with about 30 tools. The toolbox provides a structured overview of solutions to the development and implementation of cross-border public transport servic...

Europe faces major economic, social and environmental challenges. It also has great potential to improve living conditions in all places and for all people (Territorial Agenda, 2020). Still in many regards Europe faces increasing imbalances and inequalities which drive people and territories apa...

The economic and social impact of the coronavirus pandemic is enormous, at the same time the EU continues to face other long-term crises such as climate change. To make European economies more sustainable and resilient, the European Commission (EC) and EU Member States agreed to set up the Recov...

The European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC) was established in 2006 by Regulation (EC) 1082/2006. Since then, the EGTC instrument has been widely implemented and now 21 Member States either have EGTCs with a registered office or members in an EGTC that is registered in another Member...

In recognising its key role in developing European policies and legislation the European Commission has published the “Better Regulation Guidelines” aiming to improve the quality of drafting legislation. According to those guidelines, better regulation is “(…) a way of working to ensure, that po...

This report provides a detailed review of State aid rules relating to the Services of General Economic Interest (SGEI) package. The report presents key notions of the SGEI Communication and Decision respectively and identifies challenges arising from these documents under the legal framework for...

The aim of this study is to provide insights for a more permanent and structured involvement of Local and Regional Authorities (LRAs) in the European Semester (ES) by fostering ‘active subsidiarity'....