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Under the presidency of the European Union, France has organized two meetings of reaching Europe, a meeting of European ministers of planning, housing and transport, which took place on 25 November in Marseilles and the Forum Cities that takes place in Montpellier on days 2 and 3 December.

In the opening session, which took part including the European Commissioner for Regional Policy, Danuta Hübner, Minister of Urbanism and Housing in France, Christine Boutaina, and Secretary of State for Transport, Building and Urban Affairs of Germany Engelbert L.

Daldrup, the council of European Programmes presented the conclusions of the Eurocities AGM held last week in The Hague.

Thus, Fátima Barnuevo has exposed that during the discussion among politicians and participants in the course of the round tables organized, analyzed the mechanisms to improve the overall management of the cities so that they can continuously respond to the challenges the future and the needs of its citizens, and these issues also discussed at the Forum of Cities.

Barnuevo also welcomed the ambitious French initiative to link the ministerial discussions of housing, urban development and territorial cohesion.

Expressing on behalf of Eurocities the hope that the next report on economic and social cohesion devote a separate chapter to the analysis of the urban dimension, Barnuevo advocated a more systematic approach to the implementation of the Leipzig Charter in order to build a framework for sustainable cities.

In this regard, said that the position of Murcia in relation to his chairmanship of the Forum of Mobility is betting on a holistic approach to sustainable urban mobility in order to combat climate change and improve the quality of life of citizens.

Murcia's participation in the Forum of Cities in a sample of the great advances of the city in the area of integrated urban development that has led him to chair these days and for a period of two years the Eurocities Mobility Forum.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia