- published: 02 Apr 2013
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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.
EUROCITIES works along three complementary strands of activities:
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This century always transfixed with fatuity, sorrowful
Produce the paralyzed bureaucracy, sorrowful
Counting for all welfare, missed
Counting for all justice, missed
Neatness is blind
Ingenuity is blind
Speech altar becomes silent witness
Thousand discordant tones for one thing
Nil result as inscription, utopia
Hard and firm for impudence
Will not be realized
Until all flat, cypher or free
Drop the excrement ministry and rise up
Transform the falsity