02/03/2006 (Agence Europe) - At a conference on global governance organised with the EPC, COMECE (the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community) unveiled its 2005 assessment of global governance to a panel of experts including Michel Camdessus (former Director General of the International Monetary Fund), Michel Hasenne, former Director General of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and Raymond Van Ermen, Director of European Partnerships for the Environment. A press release explains that in its assessment of 28 recommendations issued in 2001, COMECE highlights the need to step up the fight against poverty and also, after a year characterised by natural disasters, the vital need to reduce the impact of human activities on the natural environment, particularly because it is the world's poorest who suffer the most from this. (Info: Claire.coffey@comece.org)