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PURPLE continues to explore how it might cooperate with the European Countryside Movement (MER), with which in mind PURPLE Secretary General met with MER President Gerard Peltre in Brussels recently.

MER has announced its intention to focus collaboratve work within the context of the latest EU Political Guidelines with over twenty member/supporting organisations on developing what it terms a "territorial dialogue". O'Connell and Peltre took the opportunity to explore whether and how PURPLE might be part of this work and ensure that the peri-urban is a meaningful part of any series of debates about rural development, and in particular how they might combine forces to contribute to the work being acrried out within the Rural Pact.