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For the most part, those are new powers for agencies to consider in the light of local strategies, local circumstances and the available alternatives, rather than new duties imposed on the agencies.
Our role is to influence the agenda. Without member ownership or buy-in by the locally elected members who sit on the LGA boards, it is difficult to get European issues on to the agenda.