Conference in Brdo on impact of transport infrastructure for cohesion

Committee of the Regions - European Union 25.06.2008 CoR and Slovenian Presidency host conference on impact of transport infrastructure for cohesion (Brdo, 27 June) The Committee of the Regions (CoR) and Slovenian Presidency of the EU will host a conference on the impact of major investments in transport infrastructure on territorial cohesion in Brdo, Slovenia, on Friday, 27 June. The event, which takes place from 9 a.m.-5 p.m., will be opened by Slovenia's Minister for Local Self Government and Regional Policy, Ivan Zagar, and the chairman of the CoR's Commission for Territorial Cohesion, Michael Schneider, State Secretary for the German Land of Sachsen-Anhalt. Other key speakers in the conference programme include Bernard Soulage, First Vice-President of Rhône-Alpes Regional Council in France and CoR spokesman on... [read full story]