Brussels, 07/12/2009 (Agence Europe) - Extending an overall positive welcome to the personal orientation paper of Pawe³ Samecki on the future of the cohesion policy of the EU (EUROPE 10032), the president of the Assembly of European Regions (AER), Michèle Sabban, described it as "a step in the right direction, especially in view of the Commission's absurd flirtations with 'renationalising' cohesion policy at the expense of territorial cohesion objectives" (EUROPE 10005). However, in the...