Brussels, 02/03/2015 (Agence Europe) - Last week, the EP's regional development committee debated the draft report drafted by Kerstin Westphal (S&D, Germany) on the urban dimension of EU policies.
She pointed out that 72% of the European population lived in an urban area and this document called for the urban areas “to be more closely associated with the entire European policy-making cycle”.
To achieve this end, Westphal is calling for a European urban agenda and several additional...