Europe: Refugees are our Brothers and Sisters Proceedings of the Mayors' Summit Europe: Refugees are our Brothers and Sisters 9-10 December 2016 Scripta Varia 131 , 2016 E-Pub ahead of print

Word of Welcome Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Vatican City , , Manuela Carmena, , Ada Colau, Barcelona, Spain Spyros Galinos, Lesbos, Greece Joan Ribò, Valencia, Spain Guillaume Barazzone, Geneva, Switzerland Fernando Medina, , Portugal Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, , Poland Michael Müller, , Germany Luigi de Magistris, Naples, Italy Dirk Hilbert, Dresden, Germany , Palermo, Italy Corine Mauch, Zürich, Switzerland Wouter Van der Heijde, , Netherlands Uwe Becker, Frankfurt, Germany Brendan Carr, , Ireland Andreas Ruhl, Schwerin, Germany Giorgio Gori, Bergamo, Italy Henriette Reker, Cologne, Germany Thomas Geisel, Düsseldorf, Germany , Copenaghen, Denmark Heinz Schaden, Salzburg, Austria

- 1 - Gunter Czisch, Ulm, Germany Federico Pizzarotti, Parma, Italy Antonella Noya, OECD Matteo Biffoni, Prato, Italy Elisabeth Potzinger, Graz, Austria Frank McAveety / Susanne Millar, Glasgow, United Kingdom Ashok Sridharan, Bonn, Germany Kevin Hyland, Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, United Kingdom Yvan Mayeur, , Belgium Marcel Philipp, Aachen, Germany Christian Schuchardt, Würzburg, Germany Giuseppe Tiberio Falcomatà, Reggio Calabria, Italy Markus Lewe, Münster, Germany Ovidiu Cre#u, Bistri#a, Romania Thomas Fabian, Leipzig, Germany , , France , , Italy Franco Balzi, Santorso (Vicenza), Italy Giovanni Giachino, Chiesanuova (), Italy Paolo Omoboni, Borgo San Lorenzo (), Italy Stefano Ioli Calabrò, Sant’Alessio in Aspromonte (Reggio Calabria), Italy Enrico Ioculano, Ventimiglia (Imperia), Italy Alberto Panfilio, Cona (Venice), Italy Domenico Lucano, Riace (Reggio Calabria), Italy Antonella Leone, Pedivigliano (Cosenza), Italy

Paulo Batista Santos, Batalha, Portugal Pia Findeiß, Zwickau, Germany , Florence, Italy Tony Lloyd, Manchester, United Kingdom Peter Kurz, Mannheim, Germany Nils Ušakovs, , Latvia Thomas Jung, Fürth, Germany Thomas Hunsteger-Petermann, Hamm, Germany Gabriele Schäfer, Bochum, Germany Maria Concetta Di Pietro, Augusta (Siracusa), Italy Dieter Salomon, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

- 2 - Mark Burns-Williamson, Police and Crime Commissioner, United Kingdom Bernd Saxe, Lübeck, Germany Rui Marques, PAR (Plataforma de Apoio aos Refugiados), Portugal Enzo Bianco, Catania, Italy Ullrich Sierau, Dortmund, Germany Andreas Babler, Traiskirchen, Austria , , Italy Abdulrauf Beitelmal, Tripoli, Libya Pedro Santisteve, Zaragoza, Spain Hans Janssen, Oisterwijk, Netherlands Jos Wienen, Haarlem, Netherlands Francisco De La Torre, Málaga, Spain Pawe# Adamowicz, Gdansk, Poland Djillali Lahiani, Toulouse, France Alberto Rodríguez Saá, Gobernador de la Provincia de San Luís, Argentina Gustavo Vera, MP, , Argentina

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