Activities of Oldřich VLASÁK related to 2011/2157(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the review of the European Neighbourhood Policy
Amendments (1)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers that the territorial cooperation principles apply also to external borders and are a key tool to improve EU economic development as well as the EU’s overall ENP political goals, including the promotion of democracy; takes the view that these targets can only be achieved with the cooperation of both civil society and regional and local authorities, thereby taking account of the diversity of territorial situations within the ENP countries and promoting the principles of subsidiarity and multi-level governance; underlines that the Commission should extend its integrated approach in order to clearly support the local and regional authorities as one of its pillars and guarantors of the general interest;