Brussels, 13/12/2002 (Agence Europe) - Over seventy large European towns have signed a declaration calling on the Convention to recognise the role of the local and regional authorities in the draft constitutional treaty. These towns, which are members of the Eurocities network, call on the Convention to devote a plenary session to this issue. They propose a broad definition of the principle of subsidiarity involving all the spheres of government, at local, regional, national and European...