Press Release: Danuta Hübner attends the Conference of Presidents of the Outermost Regions in Madeira

Regional policy Commissioner Danuta Hübner will speak at the Conference of Presidents of the outermost regions (ORs), which is taking place on the Portuguese island of Madeira on 4 and 5 October 2007. The conference, which will be presided over by Mr Alberto João Jardim (President of the Government of the autonomous region of Madeira), comes some two weeks after the adoption by the European Commission of a key communication on the outermost regions. The Commissioner will initiate a debate on the European strategy for ORs, with particular reference to the future of the cohesion policy.

European Commission: SPEECH/07/598: Danuta Hübner: The outermost regions in a globalised world http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/07/598&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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