Pushing EU Policy to Support Urban Resilience
Representing more than 70% of Europe’s population, cities play a central role in shaping and driving EU policy. How the EU engages with the cities of its member states will be critical to its overall ability to develop and deliver on its priorities. The urban resilience framework, as already designed and implemented by several cities in the EU, embodies the types of strategies that both address the major challenges the EU faces and create key opportunities from them.
Fundamental to resilience-building, and to enabling the EU to address some of its most persistent problems, is working across rigid silos and designing multi-benefit solutions. By working horizontally and vertically with a variety of stakeholders, better coordination will lead to greater efficiency, necessary redundancy, and integrated solutions that reduce the replication of efforts. This affords greater flexibility in policy and a greater return on individual investments, which allow each euro to be thus invested two- or three-fold.
