After the forced suspension of the Bureau and the Assembly of December 1 in Santiago, Chile, ORU Fogar will hold mandatory meetings through the network, applying article 14 of the Organization Statutes, an article that provides for meetings through videoconferencing and Other technological means. Thus, on December 10, a videoconference will be held with all the members of the Bureau connected, in which they will take the unappealable decisions in the dynamics of the organization, from the approval of the 2020 budget, until the decision where will be the headquarters of bureaus and assemblies next year.
Fourteen candidates to be part of ORU Fogar's Bureau
The deadline for submitting nominations to the ORU Fogar Bureau for the next few years was the 1st of November. At the end of the deadline, there were 14 nominations, representing regions, and networks of regions, from Europe, America and Africa. In accordance with ORU Fogar's Statutes and with Communiqué 70 calling for elections, the election will take place on December 2019.
AEBR awards for cross-border cooperation projects
The "Sail of Papenburg" cross-border cooperation prize was awarded to the "Nortear" project at the Annual Meeting of the Association of European Border Regions (AEBR) held at the Elbe-Labe Euroregion in Dresden, Germany, on 25 October 2019. This project was presented by the EGTC (European Grouping for Territorial Cooperation) Galicia - Norte de Portugal.
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Is Angela Merkel part of ORU Fogar?
We receive frequent news from the German chancellor,as she is a first-rate political figure, who leads the political and economic engine of Europe. Not knowing German means, however, that many of us - myself included - do not know the details of her message. A little by chance, however, the translation of a speech delivered by the Chancellor in Hamburg on 15 May during the "German Savings Bank Day" fell into my hands. And my surprise was great when I came across some approaches, which could well be those of a member of the ORU Fogar Bureau.
