Markku Markkula, who is a Chairman of the Espoo City Planning Board in Finland, was appointed President of the Committee of the Regions (CoR). He will take over the helm of the CoR for the next two and half years with Karl-Heinz Lambertz, CoR First Vice-President and President of the Parliament of the German-speaking Community of Belgium. 

Their election marks the starting point for the CoR’s new five-year term.