As Tirana’s food industry becomes a driver for tourism, the city is developing a strategy to make sure it promotes healthy, local food and fights food poverty and waste.
4 minute readDigital rights are human rights. Yet the path to making this a reality is still full of hurdles. What are cities doing to get there, earlier rather than later?
10 minute readCities are not only more aware of their role in creating sustainable food systems, but they are also increasingly taking active roles in improving both food production and consumption for a greener, healthier, and more inclusive future.
5 minute readWhile the current industrial food system has not been able to deliver, cities test solutions involving all stakeholders in the food chain and ask to feed their experience in national and European policy.
4 minute readUnder the slogan ‘Better Connections,’ European Mobility Week starts this Friday in some 3,000 cities and towns, including four from Ukraine. From 16 to 22 September, the annual campaign combines awareness-raising activities on active mobility with plenty of fun.
4 minute readAn interview with Dario Nardella, President of Eurocities and Mayor of Florence, who led a delegation of eight European mayors to Ukraine, where they me with President Volodmyr Zelenskyy and Vitali Klitschko, Mayor of Kyiv, on a diplomatic mission on behalf of Eurocities, to match the rebuilding needs of Ukrainian cities with other European cities.
5 minute readMayors from European cities were in Kyiv on Friday 19 August to sign a political agreement to support the sustainable rebuilding of Ukrainian cities. The local leaders personally introduced the plan to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and to their Kyiv counterpart, Vitali Klitschko.
5 minute readTirana looks to the future by investing in technology and creating a community of innovators.
4 minute readWith the Commission publishing a set of Digital Rights Principles, cities agree that digitalisation has to benefit everyone, however, stating principles are not enough, and cities are ready for the next step.
5 minute readAlison Gilliland, mayor of Dublin, Mohamed Ridouani, mayor of Leuven, Erion Veliaj, mayor of Tirana, and Laia Bonet, deputy mayor of Barcelona, got together in the Eurocities Annual Conference 2021 to discuss social equitable cities
5 minute readNow more than ever, cities are playing a role in food system transformation.
4 minute readCities are showing leadership on climate and demanding European level action on the eve of the publication of the Communication on the European Green Deal tomorrow.
2 minute readAt a signing ceremony today in Genoa, 12 big European cities committed to at least 40% carbon emissions reduction by 2030 and adaptation to climate change, in line with the EU climate objectives.
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