Pilar Rojo Noguera
CALRE’s President
The Future of the European integration
challenges for regional assemblies
and
1. The Role of Legislative Assemblies in
Europe: the CALRE
2. The importance
governance
of
the
multilevel
3. The defense of the subsidiarity principle
as a tool for regional assemblies with
legislative power in the future of Europe
1. The Role of Legislative Assemblies in Europe:
the CALRE
 The EU regional assemblies with legislative
power joint in a network : the CALRE
1. The Role of Legislative Assemblies in Europe:
the CALRE
 Departing point:
 Cooperation with the European Parliament
 The role of regional parliaments on the EU
policies
 The subsidiarity principle
1. The Role of Legislative Assemblies in Europe:
the CALRE
 The adoption of the Lisbon Treaty change the
scenario:
 The EU regional assemblies with legislative
power was empowered: the “Early Warning
System”
 The CoR obtained direct right to act in the EU
Court of Justice
 Request: regional assemblies should strength its
cooperation with the CoR internal activities
2. The importance of the multilevel governance
 The regional and local authorities (LRA) are the
closest bodies to the EU citizens:
 Democratic legitimacy
 Europe 2020 strategy -midterm review- needs
to be territorialized to get fixed goals
 Good governance: the LRA have to be more
present at EU level and thus, in the CoR
internal functioning
3. The defense of the subsidiarity principle
 As a tool for regional assemblies with legislative
power for the defense of its prerogatives:
 As a parameter of the EU competences
against regional competences violations
 Problem: this principle remains in process to
be effectively implemented
 Request: the implementation of this principle
have to be more flexible and adapted to
regional assemblies capacity
Pilar Rojo Noguera
CALRE’s President