Climate is on the agenda of European mayors

Nice (Alpes-Maritimes)

Urban security, act II.

During the 7th edition of the international conference Security, Democracy and Cities, which ended Friday in Nice, the 250 member municipalities of the European Forum for Urban Security (Efus) adopted a manifesto taking climate change into account.

Since Act I, signed in 2017 in Barcelona, ​​Islamist terrorism is no longer the sole concern of elected officials.

Ironically, the presidency of Efus is today held by the mayor of Liège, a city hard hit this summer by floods.

One of the vice-presidents is none other than Christian Estrosi, the mayor of Nice, whose metropolis itself was ravaged a year ago by catastrophic floods.

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"The city of Liège was affected by a terrorist attack, then the pandemic, a very destabilizing computer hacking and finally floods, all in a very short period of time,"

says

Willy Demeyer, the mayor of Liège.

The floods of July 15,

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