European Committee of the Regions 26 November 2008, Opinion of the Committee of the Regions on The EU — a global partner for development: Speeding up progress towards the Millennium Development Goals

31.3.2009 EN Official Journal of the European Union C 76/30 Opinion of the Committee of the Regions on ‘The EU — a global partner for development: Speeding up progress towards the Millennium Development Goals’ (2009/C 76/06) THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS — welcomes the Commission's growing awareness that local authorities ‘are increasingly vocal in their wish to become stakeholders and actors in