The first vice-president of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans, came to present his vision of the work to be done by the task force on subsidiarity and proportionality that he chairs during a debate at the Committee of the Regions (CoR) plenary on Wednesday 31 January. The local and regional elected officials broadly supported his approach.
The audience was not happy with the European Commission’s communiqué on the composition of the task force, which focussed on the fourth...