Brussels, 21/03/2012 (Agence Europe) - The EP's regional development committee (REGI) has sent the European Commission a clear message: there is no question of abandoning the outermost regions (OR), which need a high level of funding as part of the next multiannual financial framework. On Tuesday 20 March, MEPs from the REGI committee voted in favour of the own-initiative report of Nuno Teixeira (EPP, Portugal) on “the role of cohesion policy in the outermost regions of the European Union...