The president of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR), Karl-Heinz Lambertz, has warned that the European Union must give a stronger voice to regional and local authorities in order to bring Brussels policy-making closer to citizens.
"I am sure that making stronger the local and regional dimension of the European framework is the only way to bring the European Union closer to citizens," he said.
Lambertz, who ends his mandate as CoR president this week, hopes that the EU's...
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Elena is EUobserver's editor-in-chief. She is from Spain and has studied journalism and new media in Spanish and Belgian universities. Previously she worked on European affairs at VoteWatch Europe and the Spanish news agency EFE.