Budapest Mayor: EU Cities Call for Direct Access to EU Funds
- 23 Oct 2024 1:29 PM
There is a consensus among European city leaders that cities should have more direct access to EU resources, Budapest Mayor Gergely Karacsony said in a video on Facebook on Tuesday, on the sidelines of a meeting of the European Parliament and Eurocities, an urban lobby organisation.
Mayors and MEPs have discussed ways to allow cities greater direct access to EU funding, and "guarantees that governments, first and foremost that of Hungary but of other countries too, are trying to dismantle to strip cities of their funding."
Despite the differences between their cities, the mayors agreed that "partnership should be taken seriously at the distribution of EU funding, and cities, councillors and local communities should be heard," Karacsony said.
In the case of Budapest, such partnership "is a matter of life and death," he said.
Benedek Javor, Budapest's representative in Brussels, said the European Commission was drafting the next seven-year budget, adding that it was of paramount importance that cities' interests were integrated into the European financial system.
Source:
MTI - The Hungarian News Agency, founded in 1881.
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