ONE of Europe's most experienced politicians has praised Cornwall for what it has achieved using European funding and said it was a model for other regions to follow.

Professor Danuta Hübner, former European Commissioner for Regional Policy and current chairman of the EU's committee on regional development, visited Launceston College and Ginsters at Callington, as a guest of the Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC).

Prof Hübner, who last visited Cornwall in 2007, was shown examples of how the close relationship between Higher Education and the business community was boosting the local economy and had laid the foundations for further growth in the next European programme.

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