Brussels, 14/11/2008 (Agence Europe) - At a conference in Brussels on Wednesday 12 November 2008 on reforming the EU budget to change Europe (see EUROPE 9781), the first vice-president of the Committee of the Regions (CoR) and Mayor of Dunkerque in France, Michel Delebarre (Socialist), gave a political perspective of the budget priorities of local authorities by focussing on the current economic crisis, a vision that balanced out the technocratic perspectives of other speakers.
The budget...