8 April 2016

Event on intergartion of refugees in European cities

The URBAN Intergroup jointly with the European Investment Bank (EIB) organised a conference “How Europe’s towns and cities can address current refugee crises?” The event took place on Wednesday April 6th in Brussels’ EIB Office.

 

In the welcoming speech, Mr Mikołaj Dowgielewicz, Permanent Representative of the EIB to the EU, stressed that the EIB’s aim is to trying to help Members States and cities to handle in the most appropriate way investments needed to respond the unprecedented refugee’s crisis. Jan Olbrycht, President of the URBAN Intergroup, explained that “we need to reflect about the current situation EU cities are facing, but also about the evolution of the whole migration process in the future. Moreover, we should think about the instruments to solve immediately the most urgent problems, and what should be changed in the functioning of the cities.”

 

The first session of the event focused on the integration of refugees from the EU institutions’ perspective. Representatives of the DG Migration and Home Affairs and of the DG Regional and Urban Policy from the European Commission presented the available instruments to tackle the crisis and possibilities to use them. It has been underlined that from the beginning of the refugee’s crisis, European cities showed great generosity to welcome migrants.

 

The aim of the second session was to present the issue of refugee’s integration from the European towns and cities perspective. Lambert van Nistelrooij, Vice-president of the URBAN Intergroup, who moderated this part of the seminar, stressed that mayor’s are at the political lead in hosting refugees. CEMR representative drew attention to the fact that the EU institutions and Members States need coordination to better distribute refugees in the whole territory, between big but also small and medium size European cities. EUROCITIES representative presented the main points of its recent report on refugees’ perception and their integration in cities, as well as EUROCITIES statement on asylum in cities. At the end of the meeting, the representative of the city of Amsterdam presented the (issue of the) inclusion of migrants and refugees in the EU Urban Agenda partnership.

 

In conclusion, Jan Olbrycht noticed that “we are now observing just the beginning of a long-term migration process in the European Union”. The European institutions must therefore start  the rethinking of its statistics and reviewing its policies for the future.

 

EU Urban Agenda partnership on Inclusion of Migrants and Refugees

CEMR resolution on Refugee crisis

Eurocities report on refugee perception and integration in cities

Eurocities Integrating Cities Charter

2nd implementation report 2015 (implementation of Integrating Cities Charter)

Eurocities statement on asylum in cities

Agenda of the conference

 

 


21 March 2016

17th URBAN newsletter

 

We are pleased to present you the URBAN Intergroup 17th Newsletter. In this issue, you will find the Dutch Urban Envoy’s message about the work on the Pact of Amsterdam, Karima Delli’s feedback on sustainable urban mobility report and more information about URBAN meetings.

 

The Newsletter is currently available in English  and  Polish.

 


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