At the end of 2024, a new team of EU Commissioners will take office. As specified in President Von der Leyen’s Political Guidelines 2024-2025, they will shape the future of the EU in the next 5 years and implement the policies this will entail. On behalf of the Representation of the European Commission in the Netherlands, Studio Europa Maastricht and Pakhuis de Zwijger will translate these policy themes into a local level. How do European policy priorities touch the daily lives of people in the Netherlands?
Local Europe dives into three themes that affect local communities and discusses them each time in a different place in the Netherlands with local and EU experts: In Maastricht, we will discuss the local dimension of the European foreign and security policy. The second meeting will be organized in collaboration with BrabantKennis in Den Bosch. There, we will discuss how EU policies on artificial intelligence impact our daily lives, local businesses and governments. At the last meeting of Local Europe in Amsterdam, we will focus on climate and the Clean Industrial Deal, the new portfolio of Dutch European Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra.
