A major milestone for Europe's border regions: the BRIDGEforEU Regulation was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on May 19th, 2025. This text, actively supported in Parliament by Sandro Gozi MP, marks the culmination of more than ten years' work by the MOT, committed to removing the legal and administrative obstacles to cross-border cooperation.
On May 1st, 2025, the MOT and the AEBR officially launched a European project dedicated to Cross-border Energy Communities (CBEC). Supported by DG REGIO, it aims to foster the development of energy communities in border areas, with technical support from REScoop.eu. Discover our presentation flyer!
On May 12th, 2025, the MOT organised the first meeting of its working group on short-staffed occupations in border regions. Led by Nathan Sourisseau (Grand Besançon Métropole), MOT vice-president responsible for economic transition and employment, the aim of this new group is to draw up an inventory of recruitment difficulties on French borders, with a view to publishing a set of concrete recommendations by the end of the year.
As part of the "CAP'M" project financed by the Interreg MARITTIMO programme, a new legal study has just been launched to promote closer cross-border cooperation between France and Italy on the preservation of the Cap Martin and Capo Mortola marine protected areas, and by extension the Larvotto underwater reserve in Monaco.
This project, commissioned by DG REGIO with the support of Eurostat, runs from 2024 to 2026. Its aim is to improve the collection and understanding of data on border workers in the European Union.
On the 15th and 16th of May in Ispra, Italy, the MOT took part in the workshop "Measurement of Flows Across the Internal Borders of the EU" organised by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC).
The European Commission's Harvesting report on Interreg post-27 summarises one of the largest consultations organised on European territorial cooperation. More than 10,000 individuals and organisations took part, including more than 5,000 citizens from border areas.
On March 26th, 2025, the Politecnico di Milano and its partners* organised a research seminar entitled ‘Re-Mapping Borderlands Between Critical & Operative Approaches’, bringing together international experts to discuss the role of maps in understanding and transforming borderlands.
On May 7th, 2025, MOT Director General Jean Peyrony was the guest speaker at a webinar organised by BIG. The discussions provided an opportunity to address the main challenges of cross-border cooperation on the French borders.
The University of Victoria's Borders in Globalization (BIG) research programme is offering a new series of Summer Institutes to be held in July on the theme of "Exploring Borders in the 21st Century".
This article "Multiple levels, multiple streams: how border regions made it into the Treaty of Aachen" focuses more specifically on the Treaty of Aachen. Published by the journal "French Politics", it provides insight into cross-border policy-making processes and the role played by cross-level policy entrepreneurs such as the MOT.
MEDIACONNECT is a project under the Interreg France-Wallonia-Flanders programme, supported in particular by the Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai Eurometropolis. It aims to develop, strengthen and enhance the attractiveness of the cross-border cooperation area in order to contribute to greater social, tourist and cultural cohesion in the Franco-Belgian region.
In this documentary series, TF1 takes us to meet the men and women who shape the history of France's cross-border regions.
The MOT has written an article in the latest edition of the "Stories of European cooperation" written by IVY volunteers and published by Interact: "Alcotraité: Strenghtening cross border cooperation and governance".
Following its plenary assembly on the 23rd of April 2025, the Southern Region published its Europe report: "On track for 2030: the Region commits to being a driving force for cross-border and Alpine cooperation".
At the plenary session of the 27th of March 2025, the Grand Est Region adopted its "Germany" roadmap 2025-2028.
A decree that came into force on April 1st, 2025 changes the criteria for reasonable job offers (ORE) for cross-border workers in France. From now on, they will have to accept a job offer based on salaries in France, rather than those in their previous country of employment.
April 11th 2025 marks an important milestone for Franco-Belgian cooperation: the official creation of the Sambre-Avesnois Sud-Hainaut cross-border assembly. The MOT was present for this inauguration, which followed the signing of a cooperation agreement*.
As part of the Summit of Coastal Cities and Regions to be held on June 7th in Nice, local authorities are invited to contribute to a mapping of decentralised ‘coastal’ cooperation, supported by the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and carried out by the Global Fund for Cities Development (FMDV).
Le Schéma national des véloroutes, avec ses 610 km de réalisés en 2024, s'inscrit dans une dynamique européenne avec l'intégration du réseau EuroVelo.
March marked an important milestone for the Alcotraité project on cross-border obstacles between France and Italy. The three territorial workshops organised by the Mission Opérationnelle Transfrontalière (MOT) and the partner regions in collaboration with the six ALCOTRA PITER+* enabled the project to get to the heart of the matter by mobilising more than 150 participants from the northern to the southern ends of the French-Italian land border.
Find the description of each pilot action in our thumbnails!
The 19th session of the Franco-Swiss border dialogue was held on March 13th in Lausanne at the International Institute for Management Development. This event, which brings together national and local administrations from the border area on an annual basis, provided an opportunity to take stock of the main cross-border cooperation issues.
On March 27th and 28th, the Interreg GO! Event was held in Gorizia (Italy) and Nova Gorica (Slovenia), the first cross-border European capital of culture. The event, which also celebrated 35 years of Interreg, provided an opportunity to reflect on the future of cohesion policy post-2027, in a context marked by profound geopolitical and territorial upheaval.
