Portimão Mayor takes on European role

Mayor of Portimão Isilda Maria Prazeres Gomes was elected chair of the European Committee of the Regions’ commission for Natural Resources (NAT) at the constitutive meeting held yesterday. Ms Gomes, is a member of the CoR European Socialists Group and will chair NAT’s work over the forthcoming two and half years, until the end of CoR current five-year mandate. The NAT commission of the European Committee of the Regions brings together over 100 mayors, councillors and regional presidents to ensure that EU’s legislation responds to the needs of local communities in key policy areas such as rural development, public health, agriculture and food, forestry, maritime policy – blue economy and fisheries, civil protection, tourism and consumer protection. The Rural Agenda for Europe and public health are at the core of the CoR political priority “Building resilient communities”, says a press release issued by CoR.