15/03/2004 (Agence Europe) Last Friday at noon, on the initiative of Gerhard Stahl, action Secretary General of the Committee of the Regions of the EU, all personnel gathered in front of the Committee's HQ to observe a minute's silence in memory of the victims of the attacks on 11 March in Madrid. Jean-Pierre Berg, Head of Cabinet of the Peter Straub Committee, expressed his solidarity with Spain and the families of the victims.