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European and international affairs 2017

  • Fair winds keeping local governments on course
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City Council Commission on Europe | Municipal development cooperation An active player in Europe and worldwide

Strategy

  • Standing up for Europe
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  • Municipal development cooperation

  • White paper on the future of Europe
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European structural and investment policy 2021–2027 EUROCITIES study of cities’ external cultural relations Consultations in 2017 | Successful lobbying activities Urban Agenda for the EU: Partnership for procurement

Dialogue

  • News from the Europe Direct Information Centre
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  • City Council resolution on the campaign „Munich4Europe“ | Europe Day 2017

Projects

  • Award for waste avoidance concept
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  • Circular economy dominates 2017 Annual Conference

Smarter Together: Getting around in tomorrow’s cities CIVITAS ECCENTRIC: Solutions for sustainable mobility Let it FLOW! | Urban mobility KIC
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BuyZET | METAMORPHOSIS | URBACT – Good practice label for “Gscheid Mobil” project 25

  • Global learning to get fit for Europe
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Erasmus+ and EUMUC: Over 180 internships in Europe Martinsdorf vicarage in Transylvania | Stays abroad for teachers Diversity in action in Munich | Youthful encounters Building Committee trip to Amsterdam |

  • Pooling experience on horticulture and landscape gardening
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Munich education delegation in Québec | Youngsters from Munich in Washington LOS_DAMA! huge success | EUSALP | ASTUS European fire prevention regulations | Special ATF unit SWM district cooling project in central Munich
International cultural work | Artists in residence: Exchange with East Asia Creative Embassy | Munich shows Europe the way in culture and creativity Economic relations and international cooperation | Hotspot Munich Flight and development | Local administration survey
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Cooperation projects: Public park project in Kasserine | Outlook Work shadowing in Baladiya | Sponsoring the Subotica project DRIM project: Danube Compass Refugees in work and training (FiBA) | Visitors from Sweden Cooperation between Munich and Harare German-South African City Network Munich-Kiev partnership improves energy efficiency Munich-Cape Town climate partnership | Cities Fit for Climate Change | KyivPride

  • Climate partnership with the indigenous Asháninka people | Emergency relief in Peru
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Networks

  • EUROCITIES 2017: Municipal departments hard at work
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CEMR Municipal Development Cooperation Committee | Meeting in Brussels Equality, inclusion and diversity: “Rainbow Cities” in Ljubljana Forum for Urban Security | InterCity Youth

Cover: Picture shows Olympic Park Munich and Kiev Monastery of the Caves.

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European and international affairs 2017

Fair winds keeping local governments on course

Preface by Deputy Mayor Josef Schmid, Head of the Department of Labor and Economic Development

“The wind is back in Europe�s sails.” EU President is not the only one who is optimistic about Europe: November, the City Council and In 2017, the continent celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, the EU posted economic process is tremendously important to us. At an EU network meeting in play our part in ensuring sustainable and equitable global development. In development cooperation in particular, local governments are playing an increasingly important about 100 locally based European actors explored and debated the different scenarios from a municipal role. As the world becomes more growth upward of two percent, and perspective. These are discussions I and more deeply interlocked and its own civic society brought forth the pro-European movement Pulse of Europe. All of which are good would like to pursue further in 2018. interdependent, authorities and administrations around the globe

  • That is why I set in motion the
  • are joining the corporate sector in

cooperating more closely to find shared solutions to the major reasons to be upbeat about Europe. “Munich4Europe” campaign in the At the same time, Munich faces huge challenges in its municipal role – in areas such as mobility,
Bavarian capital for 2018. Its aim? To anchor Europe more firmly, more challenges of our day. deeply in the hearts and minds of

  • digitalisation, migration and climate the people of Munich. In effect, the
  • What can Munich do to help

change, to name but a few. These challenges are preoccupying local governments not only in Europe, but all over the world. The repercus- in 2019. sions for the Department of Labor and Economic Development are many and varied. To take just one example: Its activities relating to Europe and municipal development cooperation have converged in recent months. This move bundles the city's expertise, gives it a wider scope of options to take action and places Munich's pan-European and global network on an even broader footing. campaign builds a bridge between the Europe Day celebrations in May feel compelled to flee their home 2017 and the European elections combat the reasons why people countries? The new Flight and Development coordination unit at the Department of Labor and Economic Development is working very hard to address precisely this question. The unit is drafting a plan of action and has already established close contacts in Lebanon, Jordan and Tunisia. Our aim is to more sharply focus this city's development policy commitments on the regions from which refugees flee and the regions that initially take them in. We want refugeerelated development work to be anchored systematically in our local administration.
Britain's forthcoming withdrawal from the EU remains a major European policy issue for us here in Munich. Both Munich and its partner cities in the EUROCITIES network want to continue their valuable partnerships with British cities such as Edinburgh, Birmingham and Brighton even after Brexit has been consummated. The Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) will also give its backing to this concern.

On the future of Europe

In March 2017, the EU Commission unveiled its “White paper on the future of Europe”. The document presents five scenarios which outline how Europe could evolve over the next decade. Munich's involvement in the ongoing white paper

Munich – A globally engaged city

In the international arena, too, Munich is ramping up its activities in the area of municipal development cooperation. We are keen to
As you can see, Munich has already weighed anchor and set sail! With the wind at our backs, we are determined to send positive signals in Europe and beyond.

European and international affairs 2017

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Yes to Europe!

  • In response to the worrying
  • City Council delegation

radicalisation of political life and in Vienna the resurgence of anti-European At the end of October, a delegation forces in many countries of Europe, all parties represented

from Munich City Council visited Vienna for discussions surrounding

on Munich's City Council backed European and international affairs. a resolution “Safeguarding European cohesion – Standing up for Europe” at a plenary session on April 5, 2017. Brexit has already marked the first step toward disintegration. It is

One focus was how the administrative departments of the City of Vienna position themselves at the European and international levels. Also on the agenda was an official visit to the United Nations Organi-

therefore all the more important sation (UNO) and a visit to Aspern, to renew our commitment, our “Yes to Europe!”

a new lakeside urban district that is now taking shape and will accommodate more than 20,000 residents.
The City of Munich affirms and supports the objectives of Pulse of Europe, a multi-party, interdenominational civic initiative that advocates a unified, democratic Europe. The fact that so many people in
In 2015, Munich, Vienna and Lyon were given the nod for the EU's Smarter Together project. These three lighthouse cities are developing and testing innovations for the

The City Council Commission on Municipal Development Cooperation

Munich have come together to stand city of the future. As part of this

  • up for Europe marks an important
  • project, Vienna has set itself the

step toward helping people see and goal of making significant changes hear the European idea once again. in its Simmering district. The Munich delegation visited the area concer-

The City Council Commission on Municipal Development Cooperation was set up in 2012. Acting on behalf of municipal leaders and the City Council, this commission formulates recommendations on key political issues in Munich's partner projects in the context of development cooperation, Munich's involvement in international development policy campaigns, and Munich's commitments in the event of international emergencies and disaster relief. The commission comprises Honorary City Councillors and development experts who serve as consultative members.

ned and compared Vienna's approa-

More information

ches to the Munich project area in Neuaubing-Westkreuz/Freiham.

muenchen.de/europa

The City Council Commission on Europe

Voting members are:

This commission is an advisory body for the City Council. It concerns itself with EU Commission initiatives of relevance to local government, applications by municipal departments for EU projects, funding programs, and position papers on EU consultation proceedings which Munich forwards straight to the EU Commission.

§ Josef Schmid, Deputy Mayor and head of the Department of Labor and Economic Development
§ Beatrix Burkhardt, CSU § Dr. Manuela Olhausen, CSU § Ulrike Grimm, CSU § Dr. Constanze Söllner-Schaar, SPD § Ulrike Boesser, SPD § Hep Monatzeder, Die Grünen – rosa liste § Gabriele Neff, FDP

Voting members are:

§ Josef Schmid, Deputy Mayor and head of the Department of Labor and Economic Development
§ Manuel Pretzl, CSU

§ Brigitte Wolf, Die Linke

§ Dr. Manuela Olhausen, CSU § Ulrike Boesser, SPD § Jens Röver, SPD § Lydia Dietrich, Die Grünen – rosa liste § Gabriele Neff, FDP § Sonja Haider, ÖDP

The consultative members are: Gabriele Köhler, development expert and director of WECF e.V., Eva-Maria Heerde-Hinojosa, Misereor Bavaria, and Heinz Schulze, founder member and director of Munich's North South Forum.

The heads of the local government departments and the head of the city's Managerial Board are consultative members.

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European and international affairs 2017

An active player in Europe and worldwide

Henriette Wägerle, Head of the European Affairs Team at the City of Munich's Department of Labor and Economic Development

“And the winner is … Munich!” These words were received in 2017 with tremendous joy – not once, but twice: at the EUROCITIES Awards in Ljubljana, for the

Projects and partnerships

The sheer number and diversity of funded projects clearly shows how actively Munich is involved on the innovative circular economy project “Halle 2” launched local, European and global levels. Yet this success by Munich's waste management utility AWM; and at the URBACT Good Practice Labels awards ceremony for “Gscheid Mobil” (“Bright Mobility”), a mobility project masterminded by the Department of Public Order. These awards come as marvellous testimony to the would be unthinkable if all our local government departments did not pull together with great dedication and in a spirit of partnership. The European and International Affairs team initiates these projects, assisting the individual departments as they make specific powerful ability of our cities in Europe to motivate each applications and, if need be, on an ongoing basis. A other. And the success of the projects shows how effective collaboration is within local government. These days, connectivity is one of the most important tools we possess. That is precisely why the Department of Labor and Economic Development assumes that touch on all aspects of local government in its European and International Affairs team. In this context, one thing became very clear in 2017: All over the world, cities are increasingly coming to the fore and shouldering greater responsibility. number of new projects were launched in 2017, while others – such as the R&D projects Smarter Together, FLOW and CIVITAS ECCENTRIC – began to bear fruit for the first time. The year under review also saw a number of highlights in the LOS_DAMA! Alpine space project, headed by Bavaria in 2017 and conducted in association with EUSALP, the EU Strategy for the Alpine Region.

Regarding local government collaboration on development work, Munich evidenced huge commitment in particular in the context of its partnerships with Kiev and Harare. Cooperative ventures to mitigate climate change – especially those with Harare, Cape Town and the Asháninka people in Peru – are having a powerful impact with a view to sustainable global development. “Flight and Development” was further cemented as a key focus, leading to very intensive contact between experts in Munich and local governments in Syria�s neighbouring countries and in the Maghreb region – both areas heavily affected by the movement of displaced persons. The Tunisian city of Kasserine, for example, is planning a public park project involving strong civic participation, with backing from the City of Munich.

Further expansion of Munich’s role

In response, we have in recent years increasingly shifted the focus of our local administration toward more strategic matters. We have made good use of opportunities to reinforce Munich's involvement in shaping the future of Europe and in international collaboration between local authorities. At the EU level, this has, since 2017, included the city's lead role in a pilot partnership entitled “Urban Agenda for the EU” on the subject of public procurement. At the wider international level, steps have been taken to improve cooperation between municipalities in the field of development work – always with one eye on the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are enshrined in the 2030 Agenda.
Some of these and other success stories from 2017 are visible in Munich itself. Others are perceivable only in partner municipalities. Some have won awards, others involve collaboration with representatives of the EU. But all of them spur us and our many partners on to remain more committed than ever to Europe and the world around us.

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Standing up for Europe

Council of European Municipalities and Regions: Munich to play host in autumn 2018

The City of Munich advocates a strong European community. Recently, its Councillors thus gave the nod to plans for the pro-European campaign “Munich4Europe”, whose aim is to foster greater awareness of European matters and kindle people’s enthusiasm for Europe.

What is known as the “White Paper on the Future of the EU” was published by the EU Commission in March 2017 and serves as the basis for discussion of the challenges facing the EU. In the same year, the City of Munich therefore launched a broad-based process to clarify its stand on the future of Europe.

In 2017, Munich applied to host the next Delegates’ Assembly of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) in autumn 2018. CEMR is one of the most important political bodies representing local government concerns in Europe. “EU topics and joining up with international partners is becoming more and more important in local government work,” says Deputy Mayor Josef Schmid. “That is precisely why it is so vital for the City of Munich to play its part in the German chapter of CEMR. This forum is highly respected within Europe’s political landscape. At the next Delegates’ Assembly, this city, acting as host, wants to seize the opportunity to launch discussions and adopt a clear stance.”

Advances in European integration in recent decades have been accompanied by an increasing awareness of the role of cities and municipalities. On the one hand, much of European policy has a very tangible impact on the activities of local governments. On the other hand, Europe itself needs the backing, participation and ideas of the municipal level. Indeed, the growing role that cities play in European policy itself creates new challenges: Increasingly, collaboration between the players needs to be structured, the methods of cooperation need to be improved. The “Urban Agenda” is the EU’s response to this development.

It is a fact that the EU’s funding policy will in future be even more closely aligned with the political priorities of the EU Commission. Topics such as migration, security, the mitigation of climate change, clean energy, sustainable mobility and the digital economy are thus assuming greater prominence. Essentially, those European funding instruments that are of relevance to cities policy is whether money will be available to all regions pursue two objectives: to exploit existing potential, and – including those whose development is more advanced. to help cities master the challenges ahead. One key question regarding the future of European funding
Horizon 2020, the EU’s Framework Program, is becoming of ever greater significance to cities. Funds of up to EUR 30 billion are earmarked for this program between 2018 and 2020. Topics of relevance to cities include building a low-carbon, climate-resilient future, sustainable mobility, the circular economy and the digitalization and redesign of services, all of which will, for example, promote innovations that create new markets. The nature of funding has been simplified and is based on the principle of “trust, not control”.

Outlook

Europe is becoming increasingly aware of the role of cities and municipalities. That can be chalked up as a success for the kind of local government lobbying that the City of Munich has for years engaged in in collaboration with other major European cities. In the years ahead, the aim is to get people excited about the European idea and realise a large turnout at the elections in 2019. The course has been charted!

Municipal development cooperation

More than half of the world’s population lives in urban agglomerations. Poverty, supply chain bottlenecks and pollution are rife in many cities. Yet cities are also the places where lasting solu- tions can be found to precisely these problems. Local authorities are thus in demand as both partners and protagonists in development work. Federal government welcomes German cities’ and municipalities’ active commitment to development policy and supports them with an array of funding programs.
Munich’s activities

Munich’s commitment to development cooperation focuses primarily on sharing knowledge between local government experts in the Bavarian capital and partners or projects in developing and emerging countries. Knowledge is shared within the framework of partnerships with its twin cities Harare and Kiev, as well as in specific project partnerships. International conferences and networks provide the customary forum, involving visits by delegations and work shadowing deployments. Working together with actors in civil society, fostering contact with them and drawing on their expertise and dedication are vital elements in many projects and activities. “International Cooperation”, a unit subsumed under the Department of Labor and Economic Development, coordinates Munich’s municipal development cooperation and helps local government departments to implement international cooperation projects.

UN agendas as the operational framework

International agreements highlight the increasing part played by municipalities. The 2030 Agenda was ratified in 2015 as the United Nations’ global development program. The program centres around 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which break down into more than 170 specific targets and indicators. All these goals and targets promote sustainable development in the northern and southern hemispheres. They serve as a platform on which to fight poverty, and they explicitly identify cities as key players and areas for action.

As megacities continue to grow ever faster, the UN’s Habitat III conference in 2016 addressed the issue of how to design and realise “cities for all”. This conference unveiled the New Urban Agenda, whose goals and guidelines for action target sustainable, holistic and inclusive urban development. The New Urban Agenda addresses the struggle against the negative consequences of climate change, as well as the need to master the challenges inherent in the advance of urbanisation. Together, the SDGs and the New Urban Agenda stake out a framework for the goals and actions of Munich’s development policy commitments.

Key areas of cooperation

In keeping with the UN agendas, sustainable development is central to many cooperative ventures. Several partner projects concern themselves with what municipalities can do to mitigate and respond to the impact of climate change. Energy efficiency, water and waste-water management, integrated urban planning and geoinformation systems are other aspects of knowledge sharing at the municipal level.

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    Philip Anderson OTH Regensburg From „Guest Workers“ to „Welcoming Culture“ – Germany and Migration. By Philip Anderson, Regensburg University of Applied Sciences. Publication by German United Nations Association. Germany – Poland cooperative essay collection Introductory This article deals with Germany and various aspects of migration. In common with other essays in this volume the piece will begin with a brief summary of Germany’s role in UN agreements and treaties of importance to migratory and refugee movement around the world. This will be followed by an overview of the main features of Germany’s migration history, focusing primarily on the post WWII period. At various points in the article attention will be drawn to specific points of comparison between Germany and Poland. The historical section of the article will review labour migration and the ways in which these have evolved over time, looking in particular at the post-1945 period. A further focus will then be placed on asylum from the end of the 20th century leading in to a consideration of the integration processes following the large inflow of asylum-seekers and refugees in 2014-15. There will then be a section as a case study of training integration looking at the social and vocational training programmes for young asylum seekers in Bavaria – a primary research concern of the author. Reference will be made to the methodology at the beginning of that chapter. The last section of the article will address issues around racism in German society and take up more recent developments in anti-discrimination initiatives and the efforts to combat right- wing extremist tendencies in German politics and society as both an expression of and a breeding ground for xenophobic tendencies.
  • Differences in Pain Treatment Between Surgeons

    Differences in Pain Treatment Between Surgeons

    Schaller et al. BMC Anesthesiology (2019) 19:18 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12871-019-0683-0 RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Differences in pain treatment between surgeons and anaesthesiologists in a physician staffed prehospital emergency medical service: a retrospective cohort analysis Stefan J. Schaller1* , Felix P. Kappler1, Claudia Hofberger1, Jens Sattler1, Richard Wagner1, Gerhard Schneider1, Manfred Blobner1 and Karl-Georg Kanz2 Abstract Background: Although pain treatment is an important objective in prehospital emergency medicine the incidence of oligoanalgesia is still high in prehospital patients. Given that prehospital emergency medicine in Germany is open for physicians of any speciality, the prehospital pain treatment may differ depending on the primary medical education. Aim of this study was to explore the difference in pain treatment between surgeons and anaesthesiologists in a physician staffed emergency medical service. Methods: Retrospective single centre cohort analysis in a physician staffed ground based emergency medical service from January 2014 until December 2016. A total of 8882 consecutive emergency missions were screened. Primary outcome measure was the difference in application frequency of prehospital analgesics by anaesthesiologist or surgeon. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis was used for statistical analysis including subgroup analysis for trauma and acute coronary syndrome. Results: A total of 8238 patients were included in the analysis. There was a significant difference in the application frequency of analgesics between surgeons and anaesthesiologists especially for opioids (p < 0.001, OR 0.68 [0.56–0. 82]). Fentanyl was the most common administered analgesic in the trauma subgroup, but significantly less common used by surgeons (p = 0.005, OR 0.63 [0.46–0.87]).
  • Helsinki As an Open and Intercultural City Final Report

    Helsinki As an Open and Intercultural City Final Report

    Helsinki as an Open and Intercultural City Final Report A report by to the City of Helsinki March 2010 Helsinki as an Open and Intercultural City Contents 1. AIMS OF THE REPORT ..............................................................................3 OUR APPROACH ................................................................................................. 3 OUR CONCLUSIONS ............................................................................................ 4 OUR RECOMMENDATIONS ...................................................................................... 5 2. IMPRESSIONS OF HELSINKI ....................................................................8 ROOTS ........................................................................................................... 8 TOLERANCE ...................................................................................................... 9 EQUALITY ...................................................................................................... 10 ORDER AND DISORDER ...................................................................................... 10 DRAWING POWER AND LIVEABILITY ........................................................................ 11 OPENNESS TO COMPETITION ................................................................................ 12 SOCIABILITY AND FRIENDSHIP .............................................................................. 13 3. THE OPEN, CREATIVE AND INNOVATIVE CITY........................................15 WAVES OF CHANGE
  • Tackling Populism in Europe with a New Form of Public Diplomacy

    Tackling Populism in Europe with a New Form of Public Diplomacy

    TACKLING POPULISM IN EUROPE WITH A NEW FORM OF PUBLIC DIPLOMACY Western pluralistic democracies as we know them seem to be dissolving. Even before Brexit, the idea of “Europeanness” was being questioned. But what is weakening European democracies, and who is attacking it? Do we need less integration in Europe just because transnational democracy is not possible anymore? Or is the crisis mainly rooted in the weakness to fight populism? How much is the political leadership and the establishment responsible? How can cross-border actors and modern diplomacy keep a democratic Europe together and strengthen democracy where it is under attack? A new form of public diplomacy might be needed to strengthen cross-border pluralism and democracy. Bernd Hüttemann* Spring 2017 * Bernd Hüttemann is Vice President of the European Movement International and Secretary General of the European Movement Germany. He is also a visiting Lecturer at the University of Passau and the Berlin School of Economics and Law. This article is based on a speech for Avrupa Hareketi at Tüsiad in Istanbul on 16 February 2017. 37 VOLUME 16 NUMBER 1 BERND HÜTTEMANN iovanni Sartori underlined rightly that democracy needs to be complicated but must G be still easy enough to be explained. Europe’s landscape of societies is very di- verse. The idea that “there are not Member States, but Member Countries,” is an of- ten-undervalued reality in most of the EU and its candidate countries.1 There are mixed private-public systems including many more actors than just state authorities, with extensive differences. The classic ex- ample of a “statist country” is France, with a strong technocratic leadership which gains public support by a simple majority of the electorate.
  • The Future of Europe

    The Future of Europe

    The Future of Europe The cities and regions need the European Union. The European Union needs its cities and regions. #eulocal Table of Contents Introduction 3 “State of the European Union: the view of Regions and Cities” address by CoR President Karl-Heinz Lambertz, 9 October 2018 5 “Reflecting on Europe: the voice of local and regional authorities to rebuild trust in the European Union” - CoR opinion adopted 9 October 2018 10 The “Reflecting on Europe” campaign: a dialogue between citizens, cities, regions and the European Union 22 Endnotes 35 The 8th European Summit of Regions and Cities 36 Introduction This brochure is a collation of three documents published by the European Committee of the Regions on 9 October: 1. “The State of the European Union: the view of Regions and Cities” address given by the President of the European Committee of the Regions, Karl-Heinz Lambertz on 9 October 2018. This years’ annual “State of the European Union: the view of Regions and Cities” address was held during the European Committee of the Regions’ plenary in Brussels It was followed by a debate on the future of Europe with the President of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani, and the Committee’s members 2. “Reflecting on Europe: the voice of local and regional authorities to rebuild trust in the European Union”, European Committee of the Regions’ opinion adopted 9 October 2018. In 2016, the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, requested the European Committee of the Regions to formally contribute to the reflection of the future of the European Union 3 The opinion is the culmination of two years of debates and consultation with local and regional au- thorities and their citizens’ collecting their views on the future of Europe The opinion was led by the European Committee of the Regions’ President, Karl-Heinz Lambertz, and its First Vice-President, Markku Markkula 3.