European policies

From Spain to the Netherlands; from Italy to Ireland and Portugal, people are taking to the streets to make their anger heard: housing prices are […]

A new report from the Local Alliance reveals that vulnerable households in the EU are at risk of being underserved by the €86 billion Social Climate Fund (SCF) due to inadequate consultation of local and regional governments by national governments.

The new Commission will be officially convened in early December but its President has already taken on the most burning issue of the upcoming mandate: […]

“Emphasises that addressing resource scarcity requires reducing the extraction and use of resources and an absolute decoupling of growth from the use of natural resources.” […]

The main message from Ursula Von der Leyen at the beginning of her new mandate is a combination of ‘industry’, ‘competitive’ and ‘clean’. Just about everything will tap into one of those three themes and frequently all three of them at the same time.

The European networks of local and regional governments, bringing their expertise in energy, mobility, waste, governance and citizen engagement, have written a joint letter calling for an urgent rethink of Europe’s funding of cities and regions.

The NECPlatform project underscores the importance of multilevel dialogues in the coming years, urging Member States and the European Commission to strengthen and more effectively implement the Governance Regulation.

Can we regulate advertising at the EU level? What is the current state of affairs? As more and more European cities feel the need to […]

The German Bundestag recently passed a law for heating and cooling planning and the decarbonisation of heat networks to achieve the 2045 climate neutrality target.

All the forecasts predicted an electoral disaster that would see the extreme right flood the European Parliament. Fortunately, this did not happen. Instead, a relatively […]