Press Release: Open Days 2008: ‘Regions and cities in a challenging world’

'Regions and cities in a challenging world' is the theme of Open Days 2008, announced on 24 April, 2008, by Danuta Hübner, Commissioner for Regional Policy, and Luc Van den Brande, President of the EU Committee of the Regions. The sixth edition of the European Week of Regions and Cities, Open Days will be held in Brussels from 6 to 9 October. This year, 217 regions and cities from 32 countries have signed up as partners, and participants are expected from many other countries. There will be 120 events in Brussels and around 250 local events all over Europe during Open Days, which has become the most important annual gathering of EU and regional policy-makers, experts and representatives of banking, business and civil society groups.