Eight cities to compete for the European Green Capital title 2010 and 2011

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The European Union launched a competition to find Europe's green capital – and encourage improvements in quality of life for millions of city-dwellers. Starting in 2010, one European city will be selected each year as the European Green Capital of the year.

Online applications were open for any European town or city with more than 200 000 inhabitants. Since 1 October, the evaluation panel, set up by the European Commission to carefully examine applications, has worked hard to match cities with the competition selection criteria.


It has short-listed:

• Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Bristol, United Kingdom
• Copenhagen, Denmark
• Freiburg, Germany
• Hamburg, Germany
• Münster, Germany
• Oslo, Norway
• Stockholm, Sweden

Over the coming months, these cities will be asked to submit further details to support their applications. When the evaluation panel has assessed the eight short-listed cities over the course of the second evaluation round, it will present its recommendations to the jury, which will then take the final decision. The announcement of the first two European Green Capitals for 2010 and 2011 will be made at a ceremony planned for early 2009.
Read More :

• European green Capital - website – European Commission

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