Climate Change - what are the regions doing?

Spain took a turn towards the new left in Sunday’s regional and local elections, putting an end to the dominating two-party system.

What if all cars in a city were replaced by a new form of public transport? A think tank modelled what would happen in Lisbon.

French president Hollande convinced China all countries' climate pledges should be reviewed every five years.

The bottom-up approach for a global climate treaty has yielded better results than previous attempts, but more commitments are needed at the Paris conference, said UN official Christina Figueres.

Closing coal mines in the Silesia region will be particularly difficult, says Witold Stepien, a senior local politician from the neighbouring region Lodz.

While the regional funds account for a full third of the EU budget, they are somewhat under-reported. EUobserver's latest edition of the Regions & Cities magazine looks at the EU's cohesion policy.