Brussels, 28/09/2012 (Agence Europe) - The EU's cohesion budget will be on the agenda of the general assembly of the Conference of European Peripheral and Maritime Regions, when elected officials from the regions in question will be meeting in Bialystok, Poland, from 3 to 5 October 2012. They ware planning to quiz EU commissioners responsible for the Cohesion Policy. On Thursday 4 October, a Cohesion Policy meeting will be addressed by Regional Policy Commissioner Johannes Hahn, while another meeting, on the subject of the European budget currently under negotiation, will be attended by Budget and Financial Planning Commissioner Janusz Lewandowski. The CPMR's 160 regions will call for “an ambitious EU budget, a strong and efficient Cohesion Policy for all EU Regions, sectoral policies to duly address the territorial dimension, genuine multi-level governance approach to policy development and a firm opposition to any re-nationalisation of Cohesion Policy or to any macro-economic conditionality”. The general assembly will be examining other key issues for the regions, like the integrated EU maritime policy, the Common Fisheries Policy and macro-regions. The AGM will be chaired by the CPMR president, Jean-Yves Le Drian, who is also the French defence minister and an advisor to the region of Brittany (MD/transl.fl)