EU Local Councillors Programme: Representatives of the Regions at the heart of European decisions

European politics usually works directly on the ground - without many people knowing this. At the beginning of April 21 city and municipal councils from all over Bavaria were in Strasbourg to get to know the institutions of the European Union there and to understand how important the EU is for their communities. The city councillor Wolfgang Giegerich (SPD) from Aschaffenburg was present. In Strasbourg, local politicians visited the European Parl…

Almost three-quarters of respondents, some 74%, recently stated to the Eurobarometer that they felt like citizens of Europe, which was the highest recorded in 20 years. Confidence in the EU was the highest for the first time since 2007, at 51%. However, the attitude of European citizens towards the Union is ambivalent and this is directly related, as the evidence shows, to the fact that the centres of decision seem to be far away from the citize…