Vasco Alves Cordeiro (PS Portugal) was elected President of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) in June 2022. From 2000 to 2003, he led the Socialist Group in the Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Region of the Azores. In 2012, he was elected president of the Azores regional government, a position he held until 2020. In this capacity, Vasco Cordeiro has represented the region at European and international level as a member of the CoR, and in organisations such as the Conference of Peripheral and Maritime Regions of Europe and the Conference of Presidents of the EU’s Outermost Regions. From 2014 to 2020, he was President of the Conference of Peripheral and Maritime Regions of Europe.
President of the European Committee of the Regions