Tomorrow, Executive Vice-President Raffaele Fitto will host the High-Level Forum of the Outermost Regions in Brussels. Discussions will focus on strengthening resilience, competitiveness, and the valorisation of these regions’ unique assets. Insights from the discussions will feed into the upcoming new strategy for Outermost Regions which, along with a set of regulatory simplification measures, will be presented by the Commission in the first half of 2026. Additionally, the Commission has just published a call for evidence to gather further input for this strategy.
The Forum will be opened by Executive Vice-President Fitto as well as Commissioners Christopher Hansen for Agriculture and Food, Costas Kadis for Fisheries and Oceans, and Apostolos Tzitzikostas for Sustainable Transport and Tourism. Other high-level speakers include European Parliament Vice-President Younous Ormajee, members of the French, Portuguese and Spanish Governments, and Ary Chalus, President of Guadeloupe and current holder of the Presidency of the Conference of Presidents of the Outermost Regions. Plenary discussions will follow with all nine Presidents of the Outermost Regions, national authorities as well as members of the European Parliament and the Committee of the Regions.
