Brussels, 18/02/2000 (Agence Europe) - Taking the floor before the Committee of the Regions which met at plenary session, President of the European Commission Romano Prodi mainly said: "In the coming years, the importance of the regional authorities will considerably increase. We are about to open a major public debate on how to move on from the decentralisation of administrative competences to a genuine autonomy of government at regional level. The drive in that direction comes from...