Exchanging on the priorities of their respective organisations during a roundtable organised in Kyiv on 9 June, Andreas Kiefer, Secretary General of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, and Oleksandr Slobozhan, Executive Director of the Association of Ukrainian Cities, agreed on the crucial need to reinforce the links between national associations of local and regional authorities and the Congress, to commonly work for strengthened local democracy. Andreas Kiefer affirmed: “To become sustainable, local democracy needs a strong net of stakeholders, among which local and regional authorities are some of the most important knots”. This roundtable gathered together, for the first time, members of the Board of the Association of Ukrainian Cities and of the Delegation of Ukraine to the Congress. Sharing their needs and concerns, the participants highlighted the necessity for the Association and the Delegation to meet regularly, in order to commonly voice the interests of Ukrainian municipalities to the Congress, and therefore better promote the interests of local and regional authorities.
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