(Reuters) Cities can provide an “antidote” to populism and extremism if they build bridges between their diverse communities, London’s mayor said on Tuesday, as he met the leaders of other major European cities in the British capital.
From funding parenting classes to providing space for sports clubs, cities across Europe could foster integration and stem the social fractures that often lead to extremism, said Sadiq Khan, the first Muslim mayor of a European capital.
“We’ve seen a rise of nationalist, populist, nativist movements across Europe, indeed also in America. What’s clear is that cities can be the antidote to this sort of extremism,” Khan told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
