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GENERAL NEWS / (eu)eu/territorial cooperation

Hübner and Delebarre tell member states to stop dragging their feet over implementation of European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation

Brussels, 12/06/2007 (Agence Europe) - The European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC), the new EU scheme to make it easier to set up cross-border, transnational and interregional projects and manage them effectively, is suffering delays in its implementation. That is what Committee of the Regions (CoR) President Michel Delebarre and Regional Policy Commissioner Danuta Hübner told the CoR plenary session on Thursday 7 June. European capitals were urged to put in place the necessary...

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(EU) EU/EQUALITY:
(EU)EU/TERRITORIAL COOPERATION: Hübner and Delebarre tell member states to stop dragging their feet over implementation of European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation
(EU) EU/EIB: EIB launches lending to local authorities in Greece with loan to Municipality of Kozani
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