"The Committee of the Regions imposes its demand for a specific European strategy for the Danube"
Committee of the Regions, 16 October
"Meeting in plenary session of the Committee of the Regions in Brussels, the elected representatives of the EU regions and municipalities today emphasised the special strategic importance of the Danube region and were pleased that preparation of a European strategy for the Danube is planned…"
Grande Région: the regional nature park network
L'Est Républicain, 3 October
"A convention has been signed between the nine regional nature parks making up the network…"
Esch-Belval, an operation of national interest’
Le Républicain Lorrain, 9 October
"The development of the Belval site, on the French side of the derelict industrial areas of Esch-sur-Alzette, was yesterday propelled to the rank of a priority’ by Nicolas Sarkozy, who asked spatial planning minister Michel Mercier to raise its status to ‛operation of national interest’…"
The mayor of Annemasse brings an action for xenophobic remarks and incitation to hatred
Le Point, 14 October
"Targeted by an advertisement for the UDC, the Genevan right-wing populist party, Annemasse municipal council has decided to bring an action for xenophobic remarks and incitation to hatred. In question, an advertising insert published in the La Tribune de Genève which called readers to vote last Sunday in the election of members of the Grand Conseil, the parliament of the Canton of Geneva. A sample: ‛The CEVA? A new means of transport for the Annemasse trash! Expel foreign criminals! Don’t give them yet another access to Geneva. Vote UDC…"
Nice-Cuneo non-stop no more
Var Matin, 4 October
"From 13 December, travellers on the Nice-Breil-Cuneo line, via Sospel and Tende, will have to change at Breil…"
Source: Cross-border news, No. 53, October 2009
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