At the Eurocities Social Affairs Forum in Athens on Monday 17 October, a number of cities launched the Solidarity Cities initiative, a platform for exchanging expertise and knowledge in order to strengthen local-level efforts on the reception and integration of refugees.
“This is a new way of promoting action undertaken by cities to help refugees”, launched on the initiative of Giorgios Kaminis, mayor of the Greek capital Athens, a city particularly exposed to the influx of refugees, a...