Territorial Agenda - AER Brussels Breakfast Briefing

This Breakfast Briefing took place on 4 March 2008, and covered the EU Territorial agenda and its relevance for regions.

Our speaker was MEP Gisela KALLENBACH (Verts/ALE, DE), rapporteur on the "Follow-up of the Territorial Agenda and the Leipzig Charter - Towards a European action program for spatial development and territorial cohesion".

The discussion with Ms. Kallenbach highlighted a number of topics related to territorial cohesion and regional policy. There is room to question the relationship between the Territorial agenda and the debate over Cohesion policy 2014+ and bring to the surface the issues such defining the concept of territorial cohesion, the partnership between member states and regions and the relationship between urban and rural areas.

This Breakfast Briefing took place on March 4, 2008, 9.00 -11.00.

The venue for this particular Breakfast Briefing was the Representation Office of Aquitaine, Hessen and Wielkopolska: Rue de l'Yser 19 (Metro Station : Merode)