At the end of the 28th Conference of Presidents of the Outermost Regions which was held at the beginning of November in Tenerife, in the Canaries, the president of the Réunion Region, Huguette Bello, took over the presidency of this organization for one year.
On this occasion, she insisted on the “fair price of the climate transition for the ORs”, and the need “to invent ecological governance capable of raising awareness among overseas citizens and engaging them in a new, more demanding dynamic, but necessary”. She also defended the need for a “RUP social impact clause for the implementation of the European Green Deal, essential regulatory and financial instrument to succeed in this ecological shift and fight against the energy and environmental crises in our regions”. Finally, the president recalled “the imperative need to reconcile the internal and external aspects of the Union for the ORs, taking into account the geographical location of the ORs and their regional environment in areas made up of third countries which require the EU to implement a large neighborhood policy”.
