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Madrid’s low emission zone (LEZ) has been a long time in the making. As of January 2025, it’s fully implemented and covers the entire municipal area, but the journey hasn't been without challenges.
6 minute readA new policy paper from the Local Alliance network, which includes Eurocities, is calling on EU leaders to make the next EU budget a powerful tool for a just, climate-neutral and competitive Europe, underlining local government's key role in driving prosperity.
3 minute readThe latest Eurocities Pulse Survey, based on responses from 65 cities, finds city governments are increasingly recognising the need to innovative their administrations. However, to tackle urgent challenges such as climate change, they need ambitious political plans and long term innovation investment.
4 minute readPolluted air and noise harm health in Europe. Cities are taking action while progress at European level is slow.
4 minute readMajor European cities have offered the European Commission to join forces in key areas like climate change, digital transformation and social inclusion.
2 minute readCities call on EU leaders at the European Council meeting this week in Brussels to stand up for an ambitious EU budget 2021-2027.
1 minute readEuropean cities have struck a deal to adopt and implement common existing digital solutions on a large scale in the EU.
2 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 readNetwork EUROCITIES launches ‘100 days’ campaign.
2 minute readAntwerp, Munich and Zaragoza have scooped the top places in the EUROCITIES Awards 2019. Each demonstrated outstanding commitment to this year’s theme, ‘cities at a crossroads’.
2 minute readCitizens should always be in control of their data, while politicians should be able to use data for the public good.
2 minute readEUROCITIES and WWF are calling on cities to join Amsterdam, Oslo, Nice and Izmir in developing an action plan to reduce plastic pollution and set aside space to trial innovative measures for reducing plastic pollution.
3 minute readToday, the city of Oslo is joining forces with EUROCITIES to launch a joint Plastics Declaration committing cities to develop a strategy and set time bound targets to significantly reduce plastic pollution in their city by 2021.
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