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The Basque Country Community has also adopted a strategy based on the Cross-Border Cooperation Strategy
April 2020On 15 December 2018, the Basque Country Community approved a “cross-border cooperation” competence. Drawing on the Cross-Border Cooperation Strategy approach, it embarked on a consultative process to draw up its cross-border cooperation strategy up to 2030. The objective was to codesign cross-border public policy and to be aligned with the framework of the forthcoming 2021-2027 European programming period.
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TERRITORIES
The four levels of cooperation of the Nice Côte d'Azur Metropolis
April 2020The Nice Côte d’Azur Metropolis is a unique cross-border territory, located between the sea and the mountains and adjacent to two borders: an internal EU border over 100 km long with the Piedmont Region in Italy and an international border with the Principality of Monaco. Its 2020-2030 Cross-Border Cooperation Strategy, adopted on 16 December 2019, is organised into four complementary levels of work.
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TERRITORIES
The Strasbourg Eurometropolis’s Cross-Border Cooperation Strategy
April 2020The territory of the Strasbourg Eurometropolis has an abundance of players and initiatives in the area of cross-border cooperation, for the most part designed and implemented with its German partners in Kehl and Ortenau. It also has several tools for dialogue and cross-border governance that enable it to foster and coordinate the daily contacts that make it one of the centres for cooperation in the Upper Rhine area.
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COVID-19
Franco-German declaration: "Together against coronavirus!"
April 2020The MP for Moselle, Christophe Arend, and his counterpart, Andreas Jung, have published a joint Franco-German declaration entitled "Together against coronavirus!", calling for Franco-German and European solidarity in this period of crisis.
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TERRITORIES
The Lille European Metropolis’s Cross-Border Cooperation Strategy – an opportunity to rethink its cross-border strategy
April 2020The need to draw up a Cross-Border Cooperation Strategy was an opportunity for the Lille European Metropolis to rethink its cross-border strategy and regional leadership in this regard. In order to better assess the aspirations and orientations of its Cross-Border Cooperation Strategy, in 2016 the MEL commissioned the MOT to help prepare it, and set up a technical committee bringing together central government, the Region and the Department as well as the territories and urban planning agencies along the Franco-Belgian border.
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NATIONAL LEVEL
What is a Cross-Border Cooperation Strategy?
April 2020The Cross-Border Cooperation Strategy first appeared with the French MAPTAM Act of 2014, which affirmed the role of metropolises. It is a strategic coordination document for the French side of the border aimed at enabling cross-border actions. The act provides for its drafting by metropolises that border on a foreign country, in association with "the department, the region and the municipalities concerned".
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NATIONAL LEVEL
Prefects' power of derogation: a new decree in France
April 2020A new decree concerning the right of derogation available to prefects was adopted on 8 April 2020, in France. In accordance with the commitment made by the French President, and following an experiment conducted over nearly two years, it was decided to extend the power of derogation to all prefects and thereby step up the devolving of decisions to the local level.
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COVID-19
The European Commission has launched the Coronavirus Response Investment Initiative Plus – CRII+
April 2020On 2 April the European Commission put forward a new set of measures, the Coronavirus Response Investment Initiative Plus (CRII+), which introduced greater flexibility and simplified procedural steps to allow all unutilised support from the European Structural and Investment Funds to be mobilised to the fullest.
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COVID-19
Emergency assistance in cross-border cooperation in healthcare related to the Covid-19 crisis
April 2020On 3 April the Commission published guidelines on EU emergency assistance with respect to cross-border cooperation in the area of healthcare.
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COVID-19
Free movement of workers: the Commission’s guarantees
April 2020Free movement of workers: on 30 March, the Commission published practical guidance to ensure the free movement of critical workers, including cross-border workers. More info
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COVID-19
Flow of essential goods and services within the EU
April 2020On 23 March, the Commission published practical guidance on the implementation of the “green lanes” provided for by the guidelines on border management measures.
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COVID-19
The EU stands united in the face of the virus - the need for co-ordination
March 2020Europe is now the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19. In response to its spread, several EU Member States have implemented uncoordinated border closures and unilateral measures. On 13 March, the European Commission called for border measures to be "coordinated, operational, proportionate and effective".
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COVID-19
Statements by French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe on ‘France Television’, March 17, 2020
March 2020"Regarding the question of borders, the President of the Republic has made great efforts with all the Member States of the European Union to reach a common position."
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COVID-19
In the Grand Est Region: a European equation to be found between border closures and economic interdependence
March 2020Since 16 March, the Strasbourg Transport Company has no longer been authorised to serve Germany, and the tramway going from Strasbourg to Kehl stops at the border. Within a few days, following the spread of the coronavirus in Europe, control and restriction measures were put in place at the Grand Est borders, while population containment was implemented.
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COVID-19
The cross-border dependence of the Luxembourg health system on coronavirus tested
March 2020While the coronavirus crisis is challenging and will challenge all European health systems, the equation should be even more complex to solve on the Franco-Luxembourg border.
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COVID-19
France-Spain-Andorra: controls and health coordination
March 2020As of March 18, Spain is the second most affected country in Europe by the COVID-19 epidemic with 13,910 diagnosed cases and 623 deaths. Since midnight March 17, Spain's land borders have been closed "in order to reduce the number of people infected with the virus both nationally and in Europe," according to Spanish Minister of Interior Fernando Grande-Marlaska.
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COVID-19
The situation at the Franco-British border
March 2020Great Britain is considered as part of the European Union until the end of the post-Brexit transition period in December 2020 and even though it had never been part of the Schengen area, facing the closure of this area to third country nationals since 17 March at 12 noon, the border with France remains open.
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COVID-19
The influx of cross-border workers remains essential to the economy of the Swiss cantons
March 2020When looking at the share of people infected per capita, Switzerland turns out to be the second most affected country in the world after Italy. The large flow of workers between the canton Ticino and the Lombardy region, Italy's first region in terms of total number of infected people, has certainly speeded up the process.
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COVID-19
France-Italy, tighter border controls
March 2020Italy, the first country to be severely hit by this health crisis, recently called for a "European coordination" in the healthcare and economic field to deal with the coronavirus.
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COVID-19
Franco-Belgian coordination
March 2020In France, since Tuesday 17 March at 12 noon, for a period of at least fifteen days, and in Belgium, since Wednesday 18 March at 12 noon and at least until 5 April, any unjustified leave from home, any friendly and family meetings and all gatherings are prohibited, on pain of a fine for offenders.
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MOT
The MOT’s position on the Territorial Agenda 2030
February 2020The Territorial Agenda sets out the European strategy for spatial planning. Following on from its adoption in 2007 in Leipzig, and the first update in 2011, the ministers in charge of territorial cohesion have embarked on a new update of the Agenda. A consultation has been launched, to which the MOT has responded in order to highlight cross-border issues.
