Struzik’s opinion puts forward recommendations for the successful design of regional development strategies beyond 2020. Development strategies are core instruments for local and regional governance, bringing together individual sectoral policies in line with a place-based approach to economic, social and territorial development: “Strategic regional planning is the starting point for successful development“, Struzik believes.
The opinion recommends that cities and regions take Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into account as a guiding principle when developing regional or local development strategies, particularly in view of the fact that a strategy for a sustainable Europe by 2030 still needs to be developed. Cities and regions, as the decision-makers closest to their citizens, businesses and local communities, need to be able to adapt the SDGs to the specific characteristics of their area.
Opinion timetable:
- exchange of views in the COTER commission of 26 March 2019
- first discussion in COTER of 20 May
- adoption in COTER of 10 July
- final adoption at the Plenary Session of 8-9 October 2019