Tunis/Tunisia — Mayors and their assistants from Tunisia, Arab, Islamic and European countries, members of the Network of Mediterranean Cities, discussed Wednesday at the headquarters of the Tunis City Hall the issue of "Bringing Mediterranean municipalities closer to citizens, decentralisation and inter-municipal cooperation to improve services".
The participants underlined the importance of this issue in the process of establishing local democracy and citizen participation, which is still at the beginning of its experience in the southern Mediterranean, despite the progress of the Tunisian experience in the context of the Arab Spring and political transformations.
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