All the guests of the
Congress Session
Plenary Session of the Congress (27-29 May 2008) Strasbourg, France
Minister Kiviniemi spells out ways to enhance Council of
Europe’s work on grass-root democracy (more...)
Importance of democracy is best known at its roots, says
Swedish Minister Mats Odell
(more ...)
Terry
Davis says Congress is vital for the Council of Europe
(more...)
Local diplomacy thrives through twinning between towns,
according to Kaoru Kurata
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Shogo Arai: ''Local-to-local communications help
discover diversities of life, cultures, history and people''(more ...)
Antun Palaric: ''In Croatia, national minorities are
represented in all local and regional self-government bodies''(more ...)
Ukraine’s new concept of State regional policy means
decentralization of power and systematic reform of local
self-government, says Vasyl Kuybida(more ...)
Governor
of Novgorod pledges support for interregional and
transfrontier co-operation
(more...)
Luc
van den Brande: ''The multi-level protection of human rights
could become a new common 'democratic refrain'''(suite...)
Alan
Meale: ''Parliamentarian or local representatives: our aim is
respect for citizens’ rights'' (more...)
Forming
an area of peace, stability and co-operation is the goal of
the Adriatic Euroregion, says Ivan Jakovcic
(more...)
Yavuz Mildon is the new Congress President, Ian
Micallef was re-elected President of the Chamber of Local
Authorities and Ludmila Sfirloaga was elected President of the
Chamber of Regions
Election of 3 new Presidents