The Council of European Municipalities and Regions

LOCAL INSIGHT
Local and regional governments'
view of European Affairs

The Cohesion policy is the only European policy with a direct link with towns and regions and, therefore, with its citizens.

But what will happen to cohesion policy at the next EU budget review in 2020? What shape it should take to respond to current challenges, like climate change or migration flows?

Now that discussions around its future have been launched, we have interviewed the European Commissioner for Regional Policy, Corina Creţu, and dicussed potential new aspects in the new programming period, how the cohesion policy could respond to global challenges and how to involve local and regional governments in the current negotiations.

“We invite all US mayors to work in close partnership with all local leaders in the world to keep fighting climate change and achieve our common goal of decarbonising our societies. CEMR will always stand by your side, also engaging in concrete ambitious climate action in the framework of the European and the global Covenant of Mayors, UCLG and all partners engaged.”

Mayor of Seville and the Council of European Municipalities and Regions’ (CEMR) spokesperson for climate and energy, Juan Espadas Cejas, made this declaration today to invite our friends, towns and cities in the USA, to work with us for the climate.