22/03/2013 (Agence Europe) - Valcarcel addresses the German Länder. President of the Committee of the Regions (CoR) Ramon Luis Valcarcel was asked to give his opinion to the ministers responsible for European affairs from the 16 German Länder, who were meeting for their 61st conference. Valcarcel said that “regional and local authorities are crucial as never before in order to stop the spreading of Euroscepticism based on EU decisions which are hard to understand”. His colleague Ralf Christoffers, who chaired the conference and is the minister for European affairs from Brandenburg and a member of the CoR, agreed. He said he believed that “the current debate on EU cohesion policy and on the EUROPE 2020 strategy comes at a time when more and more citizens are encountering growing difficulties in identifying with the European project”. (MD/transl.fl)