Mayor of Ljubljana Danica Simsic has said that the EU's structural and cohesion policy should pay more attention to and allocate more financial resources for European cities. "If cities are to play a comprehensive role in implementing EU goals, adequate financial resources must be allocated for cohesion policy," Simsic said in Brussels on Thursday.
"Budget funds allocated to urban regions must be sufficient for major projects in a number of cities and urban areas," Simsic said at the conference "Cohesion and the Lisbon Strategy: The Role of the Regions".
She spoke on behalf of the Eurocities network, which associates 121 major European cities, where over 20 percent of all EU population lives.
Cities play a key role in the EU as centres of economic development, which means that they also play a key role in increasing economic competitiveness as well as social and territorial cohesion of the EU as a whole, according to Simsic.
The advantage of cities must be used, said Simsic, adding that the urban dimension must be made an important part of the core pillars of cohesion policy. She believes that cohesion policy and regional programmes must support sustainable urban development measures.
Simsic spoke at the conference organised by the European Commission at which about 500 participants discuss the role of the regions in implementing a reformed Lisbon Strategy.
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