At the XXXVIII Plenary Council of the CTP and in celebration of Interreg’s 30th anniversary, today October 28, the member of the Institute for European Studies Dr. Andrea Noferini moderated the plenary table on the Impact of Covid-19 in the territories mountain borderlands. Socioeconomic and environmental challenges of the pandemic.
The panel has had the following speakers:
Institutional interventions:
• Bernat Solé, COUNCILOR of Foreign Action, Institutional Relations and Transparency, Government of Catalonia
• Landry Riba, Secretary of State for European Affairs, Government of Andorra
• Elisa Ferreira, European Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms (previously recorded message)
Moderator: Andrea Noferini, researcher at the Institute of European Studies of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Member of the Jean Monnet EUPOL Chair and Associate Professor at the Pompeu Fabra University
Panel of community institutions:
• Pavel Branda, rapporteur on cross-border cooperation Committee of the Regions
• Nicklas Nienass, Member of the European Parliament and Member of the Commission for Regional Development and Vice-Chairman of the Rural, Mountainous and Remote Areas Intergroup (RUMRA)
Dialogue between representatives of cross-border areas:
• Jean Peyrony, Managing Director Mission Opérationelle Transfrontalière (MOT)
• Martín Guillermo-Ramírez, Secretary General Association of European Border Regions (ARFE)
• Arola Urdangarin Ferreira, Director of the Naens Euroregion (Nouvelle Aquitania-Euskadi-Navarra)
• Xavier Bernard-Sans, general director of the Pyrenees-Mediterranean Euroregion (Catalonia, Occitania, Balearic Islands)
• Rosa Amorós, general secretary of the Pyrenees Work Community
You can watch the video of the event here.
