TERRITORIES
Seminar: "The Grand Est region and its neighbours"
November 2016Close to 300 people gathered in Strasbourg for a major seminar on the cross-border relations of the new “Grand Est” region of France.
News
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NATIONAL LEVEL
Cross-border cooperation in Germany's territorial development policy
October 2016With the recent approval by both the German Länder and the federal level of its "Guiding Principles", Germany is emphasising cross-border cooperation in its territorial development policy.
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EUROPE
Editorial from Dr. Katharina Erdmenger, Head of Division, Deputy Director, European Territorial Cohesion Policy, Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, Germany
October 2016New "Guiding Principles" for Germany's territorial development were adopted in March 2016, which are in line with the idea that "Germany is not an island".
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EUROPE
"MORO" – pilot projects devoted to cross-border cooperation in Germany
October 2016Several spatial planning pilot projects (MORO), such as the one that led to the setting-up of the IMeG,* incorporating border region and cross-border considerations have been launched in Germany.
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PUBLICATION
"Grand Est : L'Europe entre voisins"
October 2016Published by Correspondances Lorraines. Author: Pascale Braun. October 2016. Retail price: €20. Title in English: "The Greater East Region: Europe among Neighbours"
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MOT
Updating of the MOT's legal resources: a toolkit for players involved in cooperation
September 2016This summer, the MOT completely updated its online legal resources relating to cross-border cooperation law.
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TERRITORIES
KUBIC, a cross-border music programme: coming back to a successful project!
September 2016Thanks to the Kubic project, which was led by the Saarmoselle Eurodistrict and funded by the Interreg IVA programme, five local French and German television stations pooled their know-how and technical resources to produce a weekly cross-border music programme.
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TERRITORIES
A 2020 territorial strategy for the SaarMoselle Eurodistrict
June 2016The SaarMoselle Eurodistrict has just adopted an action programme for the next five years.
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NATIONAL LEVEL
A platform to facilitate the mobility of territorial civil servants
June 2016The Institut National des Études Territoriales (INET) in Strasbourg has put online a platform designed to centralise a large amount of disparate information about French territorial civil servants' possibilities for mobility in Europe and internationally.
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TERRITORIES
Effects of the reintroduction of border controls: the example of Strasbourg-Kehl
May 2016Intended to form an integrated urban entity within the framework of the "Two Banks" initiative structured around a tramline, which is scheduled to start running in 2017, the cities of Strasbourg and Kehl constitute an interesting barometer for the consequences of the reintroduction of controls along the French-German border.
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EUROPE
The European Consumer Centre's new websites
May 2016The French-German association has launched two new websites aimed at providing consumers with better information.
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TERRITORIES
Cross-border innovation fair in Metz
April 2016The second edition of “Startup Show 42”, a cross-border digital innovation fair, was held on 6 April in Metz on the fringes of the Franco-German Council of Ministers. Over forty startups from the Lorraine Corridor (Epinal, Nancy, Metz, Thionville) and the QuattroPole city network (Luxembourg, Metz, Saarbrücken, Trier) were there to present their know-how and latest innovations.
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TERRITORIES
Cross-border nursing education in the SaarMoselle territory
April 2016Since 2008, the IFSI (Nursing training institute) of the Centre Hospitalier de Sarreguemines in France and Völklingen Hospital in Germany have built a partnership in the field of nursing education, consisting of the development of interculturality and promotion of bilingualism in initial and ongoing training.
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NATIONAL LEVEL
Philippe Richert, President of the Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine Region, writes to François Hollande
March 2016The President of the Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine Region, Philippe Richert, and his first Vice-President, Patrick Weiten, have written to the French President of the Republic. They are asking for 'a strong signal' to be sent at the French-German council of ministers meeting on 7 April in Metz.
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PUBLICATION
"Regional Territorial Systems"
March 2016The publication "Systèmes Territoriaux Régionaux" ("Regional Territorial Systems") that was brought out in January 2016 by the French Federation of Public Urban Planning Agencies (the FNAU) provides an analysis of territorial issues and interrelationships in France, through the lens of legislative developments and the issues at stake in public policy. A section written by the MOT is devoted to the cross-border dimension.
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TERRITORIES
The 2016 "Science Offensive" has been launched
March 2016The Upper Rhine Trinational Metropolitan Region is renewing its scheme to finance cross-border projects in the area of research and innovation entitled the "Science Offensive".
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TERRITORIES
New measures to promote the learning of German in East Moselle
February 2016As set out on 22 January 2016 by Patrick Weiten, president of the Moselle Conseil Départemental and first vice-president of the Alsace Champagne-Ardenne Lorraine Region responsible for territorial and cross-border cooperation, the Trilingua scheme aimed at promoting the learning of German in Moselle is being replaced by two new experiments in this regard.
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TERRITORIES
A university for Europe: Eucor – The European Campus
February 2016The first European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC) to be set up by an alliance of universities is located in the Upper Rhine area.
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TERRITORIES
The end of double taxation for former cross-border worker pensioners
February 2016Since 1 January 2016, pensioners in French and German border regions who previously worked in the other country no longer run the risk of being taxed twice.
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TERRITORIES
A cross-border platform dedicated to businesses in the Greater Region
January 2016The "Grex" platform was set up on 4 January 2016 in order to provide operational support to any sole trader or SME wishing to develop an economic partnership in the Greater Region.
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NATIONAL LEVEL
2015 regional elections in France: an update on the territorial reform and cross-border cooperation
December 2015Following the regional elections and the reform which reduced the number of regions in mainland France from 22 to 13, the MOT has published a note (in French) on the new French regions and the territorial reform: what will be the impact on cross-border cooperation?.
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TERRITORIES
40 years of cross-border cooperation in the Upper Rhine
December 2015The Joint Secretariat of the Upper Rhine Conference and the journalist Reinhard Reck have produced a booklet to mark the 40th anniversary of the French-German-Swiss intergovernmental commission. The booklet presents the evolution, diversity and dynamism of cross-border cooperation in the Upper Rhine since the Bonn Agreement signed in 1975.
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TERRITORIES
Trinational Agglomeration Basel unveils the contents of its toolbox for cross-border cooperation
November 2015The seminar organised by the Council of Europe was an opportunity to examine cross-border cooperation activity organised around the work of the Basel Trinational Eurodistrict (ETB), the international architecture exhibition IBA Basel 2020 and the Basel Agglomeration programme.
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NATIONAL LEVEL
The French Ministry of Finance sets the conditions for the refunding of social contributions from non-residents
November 2015Taking note of the “de Ruyter” decision of the CJEU, “the [French] Government specifies in a communiqué published on 20th October the conditions for the introduction of recovery procedures relating to refunds of social contributions made on capital gains by residents and non-residents who are covered by social security schemes of other Member States of the European Union, the European Economic Area, or Switzerland.”
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MOT
The MOT is publishing two handbooks to encourage cross-border economic development
September 2015Since January 2014, the MOT has been carrying out a project supported by the national technical assistance programme Europ'Act relating to the economic development of the cross-border territories along France's borders. The results of this work will be presented at the project's final conference on 30 September in Paris.
