The Congress is organising a Conference “Successful territorial reform” on Friday 5 May 2017 in Eupen, Belgium. The event will bring together some 60 participants – politicians, practitioners and academic experts – including the Finnish State Secretary at the Ministry of Local Government and Public Reforms, Jari Partanen, the Armenian First Deputy Minister of Territorial Administration and Development, Vache Terteryan, and Congress member Luc Martens, Vice-President of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions, and President of the Association of Flemish Towns and Municipalities. The Conference will follow up on the report on “Autonomy and borders in an evolving Europe”, adopted by the Congress in March 2016. The participants will discuss the causes, methods and good practice of subnational reform in Council of Europe member States, in four round tables, moderated by Alexander Homann, Head of the representation of the German Community of Belgium in Brussels. On the eve of the Conference, on Thursday 4 May 2017, the Congress Governance Committee will also meet in Eupen, under the presidency of Jean-Louis Testud (France, EPP-CCE).
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