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Autumn Session of the Congress
7 - 9 November 2005 , Strasbourg

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The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe held its autumn session from 7 to 9 November. The highlights of the meeting included a debate on local democracy in Cyprus and local and regional democracy in Turkey, reports on which will be tabled for adoption. Liviu Radu, State Secretary with the Romanian Ministry of Administration and the Interior, attended the session to present the latest developments in the local self-government field in his country.

Reports on other subjects were also debated during the session, including local democracy in Moldova, the state of local finances in the Netherlands, the European Urban Charter, cultural identity issues in peripheral urban areas and public participation in local affairs and elections. (more...)


		focus

		Giovanni Di Stasi calls for increased cooperation with local authorities to stem urban violence (more...)

		documents

		Speeches Reports summaries Adopted texts Biographies

		Order of business

		Distribution of works Chamber of Local Authorities Chamber of Regions Joint meeting of the Standing Committee and the Institutional Committee

		reference website

		Congress of Local and Regional Authorities

NEWS
Congress advises Netherlands to introduce a new local tax (more ...)
Congress calls for tangible action from the Cypriot government on its recommendations and continuing reform of local public administration in Moldova (more ...)
Congress calls for continued modernisation of local and provincial government in Turkey (more)
Another two associations granted observer status with the Congress (more ...)

SPEECHES
Manuel Zafra Victor: '' Spain can safely claim to be one of the vanguard countries in terms of local and regional decentralisation'' (more...)
Johan Höök: '' Sweden vigorously supports the idea of strong local self-government'' (more...)
Miljenko Doric welcomes regionalisation progress in South-East Europe (more...)
Ivan Jakovcic: ''Adriatic Euro-Region is a model uniting regional and local governments'' (more...)
Jean-Marie Halsdorf: ''Equipping the country with a system of local government equal to the challenges of the 21st century'' (more)
Alexander Uss: ''European ideals have a tremendous constructive power in the process of State building'' (more...)