European Parliament
Derek Vaughan  (S&D ),
in writing.
– I support this report, which calls for the economic and environmental problems facing EU regions to be addressed through macro-regional strategies with multi-level governance. These strategies, involving local, regional and national authorities working together, can create new ways of using cohesion policy towards territorial cooperation projects.
This can help work towards broad EU strategies such as trans-European transport networks or integrated maritime policy. It is vitally important that the economic needs of regions are addressed and I hope that these strategies, following on from successful strategies in the Baltic Sea and Danube areas, can bring together territories to find solutions to the problems they face.

