16 December 2022 – The Global Parliament of Mayors is excited to announce that Mayor Giuseppe Monteleone of Carini, Italy, has joined the GPM. Mayor Monteleone is one of the two mayors designated by the Sicilian branch of the National Association of Italian Municipalities (ANCI) to represent the Sicilian mayors in the GPM. Mayor Monteleone was [...]

5 December 2022 - Braga and Brussels have been selected on a shortlist to become the first European Capital of Democracy (ECoD) 2023-2024. Alongside Barcelona, the three cities are frontrunners in democracy, were selected by the Experts' Jury after intensive visits to the candidate cities and analysing their detailed multifaceted approach programmes toward democracy. The [...]

13 October 2022 - The Global Parliament of Mayors congratulates GPM Mayor Óscar Escobar from Palmira, Colombia, for winning the UCLG Peace Prize 2022! The city of Palmira was crowned winner of the UCLG Peace Prize 2022 during the 7th World Congress and Summit of Local and Regional Leaders in Daejeon, South Korea for the [...]

7 October 2022 – The GPM has appointed Leoluca Orlando, former mayor of Palermo, Italy, as Honorary Member of the GPM. The Honorary Membership is awarded to mayors that have shown consistent and outstanding support to the GPM and distinguish themselves by meritorious service to the furtherance of the GPM through significant and ongoing participation [...]

7 October 2022– The Global Parliament of Mayors (GPM) General Meeting has elected Mayor Manuel de Araujo, mayor of the city of Quelimane, Mozambique, to the Executive Committee. Mayor de Araujo is mandated for the next three year. He will be joining the mayors from Banjul (the Gambia), Braga (Portugal), Ghent (Belgium), Katowice (Poland), Mannheim [...]

6 October 2022 – In collaboration with Masdar City and the Global Parliament of Mayors, Talent CitiesTM hosted the ADSW Web Series: Cities Bringing Talent in the Innovation Economy last September 13th. The event consisted of an in-depth discussion that explored talent gaps and the opportunities they offer for achieving economic growth and net zero [...]

July, 2022 - The GPM welcomes Mayor Andre Kapampa Kamwanya of Kasumbalesa (DRC) to the GPM.  Mayor Kapampa has been appointed in 2019. The city of Kasumbalesa is located in the Haut-Katanga Province, a relatively new border city in the south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo that has been created in 2018. The [...]