Brussels, 08/10/2003 (Agence Europe) - The conference on the "contribution made by organised civil society to the Lisbon process, for a more participative Union" opened on Wednesday 8 October in Brussels, in the presence of the Italian Minister for Community Policies, Rocco Buttiglione, and the Irish Minister of State for European Affairs, Dick Roche (see EUROPE of 28 August, p.9).
In his opening speech, the President of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), Roger Briesch,...