Atlantic maritime and macro-regional strategy

What the Commission proposes

The European Commission is preparing a new EU Atlantic Maritime and Macro-regional Strategy to be adopted by June 2027, following a request from the European Council. Building on the existing Atlantic Maritime Strategy and Action Plan, the initiative aims to provide a broader, integrated territorial framework to address shared challenges and opportunities across the Atlantic region. It seeks to improve policy coordination, foster innovative solutions, strengthen multi-level governance, and increase the political weight of Atlantic priorities. The strategy targets the four EU Atlantic Member States and will be established through a non-legislative Communication without an impact assessment.

• Development of a new EU Atlantic Maritime and Macro-regional Strategy by June 2027.
• Builds on and integrates the Atlantic Maritime Strategy and the Atlantic Action Plan.
• Aims to improve policy coordination across EU, national, and regional levels and funding instruments.
• Restricted in scope to the four EU Atlantic Member States: France, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain.
• Will incorporate a monitoring framework integrated into the Commission's biennial reports on macro-regional strategies.
• Takes the form of a non-legislative Communication from the Commission without requiring an impact assessment.

Affected, as named in the text: France; Ireland; Portugal; Spain; coastal, island, rural, urban and outermost regions.

What is asked: Respondents are asked to provide views on the Commission's understanding of the problem and possible solutions, and to share any relevant information they may have regarding the Atlantic maritime and macro-regional strategy initiative.

Summary written from 15 passages of the Commission document by gemini-3.5-flash-lite on 3 Oct 2026; cached and shared by every organisation.

Commission documents: Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council... (EN, 3 pages).

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