In the closing session, three European Commission senior officials and the Vice-President of the European Committee of the Regions, each prompted by a 30 second audio-visual feed-back from this week's edition, have provided their own take-away message on each of the following four themes:
Marc Lemaître, Director General of Regional and Urban Policy, Europe closer to Cities
Markku Markkula, Vice-President of the Committee of the Regions, Future of Europe is Regions and Cities
Veronica Manfredi, Director Quality of Life, Directorate-General for Environment, Greener Europe
Charlina Vitcheva, Deputy Director-General of the Joint Research Centre, Smarter Europe.
