Brussels, 28/11/2008 (Agence Europe) - The plenary session of Committee of the Regions (CoR) in Brussels on 26-27 November (see EUROPE 9790) was, everyone agrees, a very full and exhilarating event. The importance given by European Commission President José Manuel Barroso to the role of local and regional authorities in resolving the current financial crisis, and the fact that Committee rapporteur Werner Jostmeier (EPP, Germany) had delivered the Committee's recommendations on the common...