The Council of Europe’s Congress of Local and Regional Authorities has elected Belgian Liberal Democrat Marc Cools as its new President. The vote took place on 24October in Strasbourg, on the second day of the Congress’s plenary session.
Interviewed by EUROPE in the wake of his election, the new President is convinced of the importance of this assembly of 306 full members and 306 substitutes, on which he has sat for over 10 years and of which he was Vice-President for 2 years on behalf...