Eurocities

EUROCITIES is a group of European cities, founded in 1986 by the mayors of Barcelona, Birmingham, Frankfurt, Lyon, Milan, and Rotterdam. The 1989 Barcelona conference agreed that a key task was to put the issue of cities and their economic, political and social development onto the European agenda.

In 2011, the network includes more than 135 European cities from 34 different countries, and most European capital-cities have joined. The EUROCITIES secretariat is based in Brussels, Belgium. The founders suggested that major European cities could benefit from forming such an association. They intended to form a political platform to act as a channel for communicating with the European institutions and to become recognised as significant partners in the European community and each member's state.

Activities

EUROCITIES works along three complementary strands of activities: