Council of European Municipalities and Regions

The Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) is a nonprofit federation of national associations of municipalities and regions from over 30 European countries.

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The Council of European Municipalities was founded in Geneva in 1951 by a group of European mayors. He is now the largest peak association of local and regional authorities of Europe, its members include more than 50 national associations of towns, municipalities and regions from 37 countries. Together these associations represent some 100,000 local and regional authorities. The budget of the CEMR is around € 2 million, of which the largest part comes from the membership fees of the national associations. The rest, about 10%, consists of an annual grant from the European Commission within the framework of Active European Citizenship Programme. On 23 October 2006 the current CONSTITUTION by the Committee in Seville was adopted.

The CEMR archives are held at the European University Institute in Florence. President is Wolfgang Schuster, with a staff of about 20 committee members, headed by General Secretary Frédéric Vallier since December 2010.

CEMR is also active throughout the world beyond Europe. He is the European section of the World Organization of Cities and Towns, United Cities and Local Governments, or " World Union of Municipalities" ( WUK - UCLG - UCLG ). This World Association today is the most important contact of the UN, wherever it is concerned with local issues or influences. At the suggestion of CEMR and the former International Union of Local Authorities ( predecessor of today's UCLG ), the UN in 1999 an advisory board of local authorities ( UNACLA = United Nations Advisory Council of Local Authorities ) set up in the towns and cities of the world since then to the United Nations relevant to municipalities consultations are involved. The UN General Assembly accepted in 2004 jointly developed ( with the UN -Habitat Division) so-called " guidelines on decentralization and strengthening of local authorities ", with which the idea of ​​local self-government should be strengthened.

CEMR

The main aim of CEMR is to promote a united and strong Europe that is based on the local and regional self-government and democracy; a Europe in which decisions are taken as closely as possible and in compliance with the principle of subsidiarity. With this aim could in the negotiations of the EU Constitutional Convention 2003/2004 for the first time the involvement of regional and local levels in the Member States and the strengthening of the subsidiarity principle be achieved, which then were 2009 contract law in the EU with the EU Reform Treaty.

The work of the CEMR covers a wide range of topics: public services, transport, regional policy, environment policy, gender, etc.

International management level of CEMR

President: Wolfgang Schuster

First Vice President: Anders Knape

Executive President: Bärbel Dieckmann, Nikitas Kaklamanis, Walter Veltroni, and Oldrich Vlasák

Vice-President and members of the Exektutivbüros: Mercedes Bresso, Pedro Castro Vazques de la Riva, Anne Marie Jorritsma, Gordon Keymer, Ligia Krajewska, Louis le Pensec, Mikko Pukkinen and Wolfgang Schuster

Vice President: Mario de Almeida

German section

The Bureau of the German section consists of the following members (2009):

  • Dr. Stephan Articus, secretary general of CEMR DS ( ex officio )
  • Wolfram Dette, Mayor, City of Wetzlar
  • Bärbel Dieckmann, Mayor of Bonn, President of CEMR / DS
  • Dr. Gerhard Gebauer, Lord Mayor, Vice- President of CEMR / DS
  • Dr. Rainer Haas, MA, District, district of Ludwigsburg
  • Dr. Heinrich Hoff Schulte, vice president of DS CEMR
  • Dr. Josef Hofmann (MP), Honorary President of the DS of CEMR ( in the function as Ehrenpräs. )
  • Jürgen Kanehl, mayor, city of Wolgast
  • Wolfgang Köhler, Member of the District Council, the Rhein- Sieg-Kreis
  • Heinz Küpper, member of the county council Erftkreis
  • Dr. Gerhard Lange Meyer, Mayor, City of Dortmund
  • Norbert students, Mayor, City of Mainz
  • Dr. Wolfgang Schuster, First Vice President of the DS of the CEMR, Mayor of the City of Stuttgart
  • Günter Thum, former Mayor, member of the Council of the city of Rheine
  • Jürgen Wall Tree, Whip, city councilor city Elmshorn
  • Rainer Werner, Mayor, City Eisenhüttenstadt
  • Kirsten Wieduwilt, chairman of the City Council, City Bernburg

Since 1981, the German section, the journal Europe out communal, but has been published since 2008, only in electronic form and will be sent by e -mail.

Annemarie Jorritsma Committee of the Regions Chamber of Local Authorities
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