Conference on Peripheric Regions of Europe

The Conference on Peripheric-maritime Regions (CRPM) of Europe, held from October 11 to 13 2000, the XXVII General Assembly in the Toscan city of Florence, Italy, under the slogan "New challenges: regions, cohesion and new forms of government."

The General Assembly of the CPRM is integrated by 127 regions that belong to 18 European states. The structure and working of the organisation is based on different committees that group, via zones, the member regions: Committee for the North Sea, Committee for the Baltic Sea, Committee for the Atlantic Arc, Committee Intermediterranean, and the Committee for the Islands, presided by the Councillor for Economy and Budgets of the Balearic Government, Joan Mesquida, that is integrated by 25 regions of 11 States, including the Balearics.

What is more, the councillor Mesquida, the president of the Balearic Government, Francesc Antich, will also participate in the sessions of the Assembly of the CRPMA and will pronounce the speech "A European territorial strategy cannot ignore the insular dimension" and he will attend the meeting of the political bureau and the election ceremony of the new president of the Conference of the Peripheric-maritime Regions.

Source: CRPM and Servicio de Comunicación del Govern de les Illes Balears

Date of publication: 11/10/2000

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