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Press release, 02.09.2010 - “Building Europe from the bottom up”: The Covenant of Mayors inspires the President of the European Commission On 27th August 2010, in a speech delivered in Rimini -a member of Energy Cities- the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, presented the Covenant of Mayors as an exemplary initiative for Europe. Invited to talk at the 31st Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples, he expressed his desire to extend such innovative partnerships to other policy areas and said this was “subsidiarity in action1”. His message underlined the fact that “As a result, local governments have become leading actors in implementing sustainable energy policies”1. Download the speech of José Manuel Barroso Download: PDF - 139.2 kb

Press Release, 16.06.2010 - Call for extension of the Covenant of Mayors to Western Balkans An extension of the Covenant of Mayors to the Western Balkans was called for in a common declaration adopted during the meeting of the presidents and directors of the Network of Associations of Local Authorities of South-East Europe (NALAS1) in Sofia on 15 June. Download: PDF - 393.4 kb

Press Release, 6.05.2010 - IVANIC-GRAD (HR) receives the TCA 2010 award The city of Ivanic-Grad, Croatia, was awarded with the First Place. About this candidate, the Jury expressed “to be impressed by the total inclusion of this campaign - from public to private buildings involving media; users and the citizens of the area including children and politicians. Download: PDF - 455.9 kb

Press Release, 6.05.2010 - Covenant of Mayors: European Commissioner for Energy Oettinger announces €115M for signatory cities The city network Energy Cities –which has been playing an important role in this process - congratulates the Commissioner on this first step, a step that the 1,700 cities engaged in the Covenant of Mayors had been eagerly waiting for. Download: PDF - 112.4 kb

Energy Cities statement on the Covenant of Mayors Cities engaged in the Covenant of Mayors are waiting for a strong signal from the European Commission and Member States! Download: PDF - 244.5 kb

Energie­-Cités becomes Energy Cities After twenty years of existence, Energie-­Cités ­the European Association of local authorities inventing their energy future­ has changed both its name and logo. The name of the association is now Energy Cities, to underline the European dimension of this association which has a membership of one thousand local authorities from thirty countries. Download: PDF - 320.5 kb

Press Release, 29.03.2010 - European Recovery Plan: unused funds should go to cities engaged in the Covenant of Mayors The €5 billion European Economic Recovery Plan (EERP) adopted in spring 2009 excluded local authorities’ energy efficiency initiatives from support. Local authority networks –coordinated by Energy Cities- had proposed allocating 500 MEUR to cities engaged in the Covenant of Mayors to reinforce, inter alia, their financial and human capacities. Although favourably received by the Parliament, this proposal had been discarded by the Commission. It appears that an amount of about 115 M€ will remain from the Economic European Recovery Plan (EERP), one year after its adoption. This is not a huge amount, but if it is well used, a leverage effect might occur. Download: PDF - 140.9 kb

Press release, 12.01.2010 - Display : Labelled buildings are talking buildings Your municipality is “display”ing an energy certificate in its buildings? And, more than that, it has launched a much broader awareness-raising campaign on the energy performance? If so, Energy Cities’ Display® Campaign team awaits your application to the 2010 TCA Awards. The deadline for applications is 26th March 2010! Download: PDF - 275.5 kb

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