TERRITORIES
A strategic plan for the Aquitaine-Euskadi Euroregion
February 2015On 19 December 2014 in Hendaye, the 2014-2020 strategic plan for the Aquitaine-Euskadi Euroregion EGTC was presented.
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MOT
Meeting of the working group on changes to the MOT
January 2015After an initial day of discussions by the MOT's network in Paris on 15 October 2014, and an evaluation, in the form of a questionnaire, of its network's activities, structure and needs, a dedicated working group met on 18 December 2014 in the MOT's offices.
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TERRITORIES
French-Swiss cooperation to count the real number of border residents
January 2015The Canton of Geneva and the Ain and Haute-Savoie Departments are going to cooperate in order to better identify "false Swiss residents", who are responsible for a shortfall of nearly €40 million on the French side. It's the first time that the Canton of Geneva is going to provide this type of information to the French authorities.
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TERRITORIES
Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai Eurometropolis: For better access to cross-border jobs
January 2015In 2006, under the impetus of civil society, three public employment services (those of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais Region, Wallonia and Flanders) and Unizo (the Union of Independent Flemish Entrepreneurs) set up the "Eurometropolis Jobs Forum".
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TERRITORIES
Sport without borders
January 2015On 12 December 2014 in Dunkirk, the closing event of the INTERREG project "TransSport – Sport without Borders" was an opportunity to present the achievements of this project, which since 2012 has brought together seven partners from West Flanders and the North of France.
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MOT
Inforailmed, a project to develop rail services in the French-Italian-Monaco border area
January 2015Every day, more than 12000 people take the train to cross the border between France, Italy and Monaco, whether for work or for leisure.
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MOT
Conference in Paris on cross-border healthcare
January 2015On 10 December 2014, the conference entitled "What solutions for cross-border healthcare?" took place at the Assemblée Nationale in Paris. Organised by the Assemblée Nationale's "Border Regions and Workers" study group, with support from the MOT, this conference brought together cross-border healthcare experts and elected representatives from all of France's border areas.
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PUBLICATION
Publication of "Vivre et penser la coopération transfrontalière: Vers une cohésion territoriale ?"
January 2015Volume 6. Contributions from the research cycle on cross-border cooperation at the University of Strasbourg and the Euro-Institut.
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EUROPE
Evaluation of the Committee of the Region's (CoR) platforms
January 2015On 9 December 2014, the MOT took part in a meeting of the CoR as part of the evaluation of its three platforms: the EGTC Platform, the Europe 2020 Monitoring Platform and the Subsidiarity Monitoring Network.
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TERRITORIES
A European project for greater security on the Rhine
January 2015After the launch in 2008 of the first French-German rapid intervention facility on the Rhine – the "Europa 1 fire-boat" – the Fire and Rescue Service of the Bas-Rhin Department has worked for five years on the implementation of a new INTERREG project focused on the training of rescue services in the Upper Rhine in combating river-related risks.
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MOT
MOT Wishes
January 2015“Cooperation and partnership are the only route that offers any hope of a better future for all humanity.” Kofi Annan, politician and former Secretary-General of the United Nations.
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TERRITORIES
Interreg VA 2 Seas: first call for proposals
January 2015The first call for proposals under the 2 Seas Programme (2014-2020) between France and the United Kingdom has been launched (deadline for the first stage: 15 February).
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TERRITORIES
The Basque Eurocity sketched by its young inhabitants
December 2014Since September and until February 2015, young people from both sides of the Bidasoa River are working on the "Basque Eurocity of the future".
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TERRITORIES
Towards new interclustering projects in Aquitaine-Euskadi
December 2014The cross-border chamber of commerce for the Basque Country, BIHARTEAN, and the Euskadi Institute of Competitiveness, ORKESTRA, have for more than a year been implementing a cross-border interclustering initiative, recognised as a project of Euroregional interest by the Aquitaine-Euskadi EGTC*.
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TERRITORIES
The REGIO PAMINA Eurodistrict: a day devoted to cross-border employment
December 2014The cross-border labour market was the leitmotif of the event held on Thursday, 27 November 2014 by the REGIO PAMINA Eurodistrict and the social enterprise Neue Arbeit in Lauterbourg. Around 60 French and German players from the political sphere, administration and economy came together to take part in two roundtables on this topic.
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TERRITORIES
A difficult year for Greater Geneva
December 2014This year of 2014 has been a difficult one for "Greater Geneva".
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TERRITORIES
Experiment in Alsace and Lorraine?
December 2014"During a visit to Lorraine on 24 November, the French President, François Hollande, proposed an 'experiment' with the carbon tax in Alsace and Lorraine, two regions that are in favour of the measure, which has been abandoned at national level.
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MOT
MOT study on French-Belgian cross-border cooperation
December 2014As 2014 draws to a close, the technical work to update the report of the French-Belgian parliamentary working group (GTPFB), initiated by the prefecture of the Nord-Pas de Calais Region, is being finalised. This initiative has benefited from the support and expertise of the MOT.
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EUROPE
The Committee of the Regions stresses the need to speed up implementation of partnership agreements and operational programmes
December 2014Following the General Affairs Council, Michel Lebrun, the President of the Committee of the Regions, saluted the efforts made by the European Council and the European Commission to speed up the adoption and implementation of partnership agreements and operational programmes within the framework of cohesion policy.
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TERRITORIES
2 Seas Programme
December 2014The event to launch the 2 Seas operational programme (France-United Kingdom) was held on 20-21 November 2014 in Saint André lez Lille and brought together more than 620 participants.
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FRANCE
35th national meeting of urban planning public agencies
December 2014At this meeting entitled "A la recherche du bien commun territorial" ("The search for the territorial common good"), held on 17-18 November 2014 in Paris, a workshop was devoted to an international topic: "Sustainable metropolises in the European and international urban agenda", in which the MOT took part.
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MOT
Conference in Russia
December 2014Jean Peyrony, the MOT's Director General, took part in the 10th conference entitled "Cross-border cooperation: Russian Federation, European Union and Norway", which took place in St Petersburg on 14 November 2014.
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PUBLICATION
An Evaluation of Tax-Benefit Systems Impact on the Welfare of Frontier Workers. The Case of Luxembourg and Belgium
December 2014The thesis is about the differences in social security systems and taxes in the European Union’s context (looking at the selected country cases) and how these affect the income of individuals who reside in one country, but commute daily or weekly to another country for work, while keeping their residence place constant (called ‘frontier workers’).
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FRANCE
Seminar to launch the 2014-2020 programming period in Montpellier
November 2014In France, the Government and the regions launched the 2014-2020 programming period for European funds at a seminar held in Montpellier on 14 November 2014, in the presence notably of Sylvia Pinel, the Minister of Housing, Territorial Equality and the Countryside, and Harlem Désir, the Secretary of State for European Affairs.
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TERRITORIES
Summit on the EuroAirport
November 2014On 30 October 2014, French President François Hollande received Didier Burkhalter, President of the Swiss Confederation, to talk in particular about the cross-border airport in Basel-Mulhouse, a subject of disagreement between Paris and Bern since the summer.
