Interview with Peter Straub: Decentralisation is a task for both the Congress and the Committee of the Regions

19.05.2004 - The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe and the EU’s Committee of the Regions should together stand up for decentralisation in the EU accession states, according to Peter Straub (Germany), President of EU’s Committee of the Regions, in an interview.

The President of the Baden-Württemberg Landtag also called on both organisations to build bridges, in the regional policy sphere, between the EU and its new neighbouring states outside the present external border of the European Union.

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