SECTORAL POLICIES / Urban agenda

Cretu says European urban agenda will contribute to goals of UN new urban agenda

Brussels, 19/10/2016 (Agence Europe)

European Regional Development Commissioner Corina Cretu made a passionate argument for the UN new urban agenda in a series of interventions at the UN Habitat III conference in Quito, Ecuador, on Tuesday 18 October.  The EU’s urban agenda will, she said, help deliver the UN new urban agenda.

In her speech opening the plenary session of the conference, Cretu described the adoption of a new urban agenda (see EUROPE 11647) as “historic”, indicating the development of urban governance and...