Michel Lebrun left his position as a town councillor in Wallonia to succeed Ramon Luis Valcarcel as the President of the Committee of the Regions (CoR). He will occupy this position until February 2015.
 
The CoR also sees the arrival of a new Vice-President, Catiuscia Marini, for the next two years and a half. Mrs Marini, of Italian nationality, has previously held national and European functions in the domains of gender equality and cohesion policy, among others.