10/10/2008 (Agence Europe) - On 9 October 2008, the President of the Committee of the Regions (CoR), Luc Van den Brande, and the Vice-President of the European Commission, Gunter Verheugen, debated how the current financial crisis would impact on the regions and local authorities at the CoR plenary attended by the 344 CoR members (see related article). Van den Brande stressed the crucial role that regions and cities could play in helping soften the impact of the crisis, and Verheugen said...