COR: EU URBAN AGENDA DEVELOPS NEW WORKING METHODS TO IMPROVE COHERENCE OF ALL EU POLICIES ON CITIES

The new European Urban Agenda should improve the quality of life in cities but also the EU governance. It is about developing new working methods, including partnerships and selective impact assessments of legislation. European Parliament’s Regional Development Committee and Committee of the Region’s COTER members stressed in a joint hearing on 25 January that to reach this goal there is a need for a practical and concrete approach, reflecting the needs on the ground and building partnerships with different levels of government. EU Urban Agenda should not end up being limited to discussions in working groups and  exchanges of best practices.Consultation with cities needs to be “mainstreamed” in EU policy-making.

For more information about the joint hearing, please follow the link.