The University of the Grande Région is born
Le Républicain lorrain, 3 May
“The University of the Grande Région (UGR) has been launched. The inaugural conference took place this week in Saarbrücken and was attended by seven university partners from Kaiserslautern, Liège, Luxembourg, Nancy, Saarbrücken, Trier and Metz. The structures set up as part of the project will facilitate medium-term cross-border cooperation in all areas’, declared Bernard Rentier, rector of the University of Liège…”
The European funds go on line
Le Républicain lorrain, 9 May
“The prefecture of the [Lorraine] region is launching today, Europe day, a website devoted entirely to European funding…”
Tourism: the Upper Rhine looking for a common brand
Les Echos, 6 May
“With support from Brussels, the Baden region, Alsace and the Basle region in Switzerland are going to pool their efforts to set up joint tourism promotion…”
Fast’ construction for the cross-border RER
20 Minutes, 25 April
“The French and Swiss partners of the future France-Vaud-Geneva RER regional express network (RER fvg) decided on Saturday in Geneva ‛on fast construction’ of the project, i.e. by 2016 as planned until now…”
Pyrénées-Orientales - The VHV will cross the Pyrenees in a tunnel
Le Moniteur, 8 May
“The future very-high-voltage power line (VHV) between France and Spain, burial of which was decided by an intergovernmental agreement on 27 June 2008, will cross the Pyrenees in an 8 km tunnel parallel to that of the Perpignan-Figueras high-speed rail line…”
Source: Cross-border news, No.50, May 2009
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