{"id":2412,"date":"2016-08-11T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/news\/internationale-buergermeister-konferenz-now"},"modified":"2026-04-27T10:43:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:43:53","slug":"international-mayors-conference-now","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/news\/internationale-buergermeister-konferenz-now","title":{"rendered":"International Conference of Mayors NOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"avia_textblock\">\n<h1>International Conference of Mayors NOW Athens<br \/>21-23 July 2016<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<p>From 21-23 July 2016, another NOW conference took place in Athens, organised by our cooperation partner Act.Now. This time, the focus was on the implementation of the <strong>EU-Turkey agreement <\/strong>and the challenges for the affected municipalities and cities. During the three-day conference, mayors, NGO representatives, experts and refugees discussed the current situation and developed insights for further agreements.<br \/>The conference was organised by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hannes-swoboda.at\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hannes Swoboda<\/a>, former member of the European Parliament and board member of the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue.<br \/><a title=\"NOW Athens\" href=\"http:\/\/now-conference.org\/de\/athen2016\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">All information and the final document can be found here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Now_Day-1_Hi-Res1-1030x687-1.jpeg\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail_480x240 lazyload\" alt=\"NOW Athens\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Now_Day-1_Hi-Res1-1030x687-1.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Now_Day-1_Hi-Res1-1030x687-300x200-1.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Now_Day-1_Hi-Res1-1030x687-768x512-1.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Now_Day-1_Hi-Res1-1030x687-587x391-1.jpeg 587w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 700px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 700\/467;\" data-original-sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><br \/> <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/now_2.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail_480x240 lazyload\" alt=\"now_2\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/now_2.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/now_2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/now_2.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/now_2.jpg 587w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 700px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 700\/467;\" data-original-sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":2413,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"news-kategrie":[48],"class_list":["post-2412","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-kategrie-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Internationale B\u00fcrgermeister-Konferenz NOW - Kreisky Forum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/news\/international-mayors-conference-now\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Internationale B\u00fcrgermeister-Konferenz NOW - Kreisky Forum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Internationale B&uuml;rgermeister-Konferenz&nbsp;NOW Athen21-23. 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