ORU’s Secretariat-General met last 8th and 9th of June with Uruguay’s Congreso de Intendentes (Congress of Governors) to start preparations for ORU’s next Executive Bureau, to be held in Montevideo on the 24th and 25th of September.
Decentralised Cooperation for Development, under discussion in Brussels
On the 1st and 2nd of June, the Committee of the Regions headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, hosted the 4th edition of the Assises of Decentralised Cooperation for Development. Co-organized by the committee of the Regions and the European Commission, the event became a meeting point for more than five hundred institutions and local and regional authorities from the European Union and the developing countries to exchange experiences and points of view in the field of development cooperation.
Independent candidacies have great success in Mexican mid-term elections
Last 7th of June mid-term elections were held in Mexico. In 17 out of the 31 states in the Republic, the candidates competed for seats in city councils, provincial and federal councils and, in 9 of them, also in state governments. Polling day took place without any irregularities – except for some complications in certain states such as Michoacán and Oaxac. Also, 98% of the polling stations foreseen opened, turning it into an unprecedented democratic event.
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Should we be concerned about endless urban growth?
What struck me most during the debate on Habitat III organised by UCLG in Porto Alegre to which we had been invited, was the message conveyed by São Paulo’s deputy mayor, Nadia Campeão.(...)
Post-2015 Agenda and territorial development: an agenda for discussion
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and the Post-2015 Development Agenda represent a new space offering major opportunities for local and subnational cooperation. Particularly since its more traditional and consolidated assets –participation, horizontality, territorial strategies, political dialogue, among others– adjust easily to the vision of development promoted by the SDG: a more widely shared agenda between north and south, (...)
