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As Europe heads to the polls, the continent’s local leaders say that climate change and housing are the most important issues facing their constituencies.
The latest Eurocities Pulse Mayors Survey — conducted in the months leading up to June’s European Parliament election and shared exclusively with POLITICO’s Living Cities— polled 92 mayors in 28 European countries.
For the second year in a row, climate change topped the list of most important issues for Europea’s urban areas. More than a quarter of the bloc’s municipal leaders said that global warming was the biggest threat facing their city; over two-thirds said they felt the majority of their citizens demanded action on decarbonization policies.
