Press Release: Swedish Presidency tells CoR plenary session: uncertain times will not paralyse the EU

As European heads of state and government met in Brussels to debate Irish guarantees over the Lisbon Treaty and José Manuel Barroso's bid for a second term as European Commission President, the upcoming Swedish Presidency of the EU told the Committee of the Regions (CoR) that the institutional vacuum left by the uncertainty over the Irish referendum and the changes in the European Parliament and Commission will not be allowed to paralyse the working of the EU. CoR President Luc Van den Brande assured the Swedish Presidency that it could count on the support of the Committee, and local and regional authorities across Europe, to make sure that vital work of the European Union continued unchecked.