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The URBAN Intergroup at the European Parliament

The URBAN Intergroup at the European Parliament is a cross-parties and cross-committees grouping with a horizontal approach to discuss urban related issues. We bring together over 89 MEPs representing most EU Member States, all the political groups at the European Parliament, and working in all the parliamentary committees. We work with 143 partners from local, regional, national and European level that represent the interests of Europe’s town and cities or work in the domain relevant for urban development.

Objectives

  • Monitoring the legislative and non-legislative work of EP's committees on urban related issues
  • Working on common EU strategies - to put urban needs on the agenda of EU policies
  • involvement in the preparation of EU legalization 
  • Constantly staying in contact with partners and practitioners 
  • Informing about realization of EU policies on the ground 

Our work focuses on a number of subjects linked to sustainable development of urban areas such as:

  • entivonment and energy efficiency,
  • urban transport,
  • housing,
  • social aspects (social exlusion, migration, ageing of the population),
  • services of general interest,
  • local public finances,

The URBAN Intergroup (previously “URBAN-Housing”) was set up and is working successfully since 2005 to ensure that urban related problems are reflected in European Parliament’s decisions.

Source: The URBAN Intergroup - About

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