24/06/2002 (Agence Europe) - The Ministers responsible for the local and regional authorities of the 44 Member States of the Council of Europe will be meeting on 27 and 28 June in Finlandia Hall in Helsinki (Finland) to define the form that the European legal text on regional autonomy should take. Those present will include the Finnish Prime Minister Paavo Lipponnen and the President of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe (CLRAE), Herwig van Staa.