Isilda Gomes, mayor of Portimão, is now an effective member of the Committee of the Regions of the European Union (EU), where she joins the Committee on Natural Resources, which has portfolios as sensitive as public health, civil protection, tourism , fisheries, the economy of the sea and agriculture.
In this capacity, the Algarve mayor participated, between 11 and 13 February, in the inaugural session of the seventh term of this community body, responsible for policies aimed at regions and municipalities, which will run from 2020 to 2025.
In the organic framework of the Committee of the Regions for this mandate, Isilda Gomes joins the Committee on Natural Resources (NAT), but is also part of the Committee on Social Policy, Education, Employment, Research and Culture (SEDEC).
In addition to the mayor of Portimão, the Portuguese representation comprises 11 members, including the mayors of Lisbon (Fernando Medina), Sintra (Basílio Horta) and Aveiro (Ribau Esteves), as well as the president of the Regional Government of Madeira, Miguel Albuquerque.
On the other hand, Isilda Gomes was invited by the president of the European Socialist Parliamentary Group, the Frenchman Christophe Rouillon, to represent this political body in the contact group with the United Kingdom.
Before the 329 members of the Committee of the Regions, representing the 27 EU Member States, the Greek Apostolos Tzitzikostas, the new elected president, defined three priorities for his term, the first of which will be “the commitment to territorial cohesion, innovation and entrepreneurship, but also finding credible solutions for migration management, led by solidarity.”
“Secondly, regions and cities must focus on understanding and responding to the profound transformations of the current green, digital and demographic revolutions. Finally, we must strengthen European democracy, putting regions and cities at its heart, in order to bring Europe closer to the people”, stressed Apostolos Tzitzikostas, current governor of Central Macedonia.
In this first session, the President of the Regional Government of the Azores, Vasco Cordeiro, was elected by acclamation as the first vice-president of that community body. despite the distance, size or wealth.”
“With audacity and courage, we have to roll out our sleeves so that all regions and municipalities have a role to play, leaving no one behind,” said Vasco Cordeiro, who will replace Apostolos Tzitzikostas as chairman of the Committee of the Regions a year from now and half, until the end of the term.
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