VAN DEN BRANDE TO ADVISE COMMISSIONER HAHN.

• Position: Johannes Hahn - Brief article

The EU Committee of the Regions (CoR) is sending a special adviser to the European Commission. Luc Van den Brande (EPP, Belgium), chair of the CoR's Commission for Citizenship, Governance, Institutional and External Affairs (CIVEX), was named, at the end of 2010, special adviser to Regional Policy Commissioner Johannes Hahn for multilevel governance issues. Van den Brande was CoR president from 2008 to 2010, a period during which multilevel governance - involving the different levels of power - was his political creed. He...