Stockholm, 05/06/2001 (Agence Europe) - During its meeting in Stockholm last week, the Party of European Socialists group at the Committee of the Regions insisted on the role that may be played by local and regional authorities in the future institutional architecture of the EU. On this occasion, the president of the PES group, Albert Bore, Mayor of Birmingham, asked for the European Council of Laeken to explicitly provide for the possibility of a presence of regional and local authorities...