News
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TERRITORIES
Interview with Christian Estrosi, Mayor of Nice, President of the Nice-Côte d'Azur Metropolis
December 2023Following the launch of the Franco-Italian Border Cooperation Committee, and more recently of the "Observ'Alp" project, which brings together numerous partners between France, Italy and Monaco, Christian Estrosi answers our questions on the major cross-border challenges facing the Metropolis with its border neighbors.
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EDITO
"Territorializing housing policy"
November 2023MOT president Christian Dupessey, mayor of Annemasse, reflects on the issue of housing in border areas, following Minister Stanislas Guerini's announcement of a cost-of-living allowance for public servants affected by the real estate pressures associated with Switzerland's proximity. Read his editorial!
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TERRITORIES
Greater Geneva: what is the French response to high living costs and real estate pressures?
October 2023Switzerland employs over 180,000 French cross-border commuters. Salaries are among the highest in Europe. This high level of attractiveness is having a major impact on the French side of the border, in areas such as Pays de Gex in Ain and Annemasse in Haute-Savoie, where salaries cannot keep up: high living costs, strong pressure on property prices, job vacancies in the public sector, etc. The consequences - which are not new - are numerous and complicated to resolve.
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TERRITORIES
Strasbourg - Kehl: using industrial waste heat across the border, a one-of-a-kind project in Europe
October 2023The project to recover waste heat from the Badische Stahlwerke (BSW), Kehl's steelworks, is now entering its concrete phase.
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TERRITORIES
The IDEA Foundation’s anthology devotes a chapter to regional planning and cross-border cooperation in Luxembourg
October 2023In this collection, 22 authors from a wide range of backgrounds were invited to answer key questions to fuel debate in the run-up to Luxembourg's parliamentary elections in October 2023, and beyond, in order to shed light on the country's major challenges. An entire chapter is devoted to cross-border issues, with a contribution from Aurélien Biscaut, Secretary General of the MOT.
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ETATS
How can simulation games help spatial planning in a border area?
September 2023In border areas, living and employment areas are closely intertwined. Differences between planning tools and the organisation of the relevant authorities can hamper integrated regional development. These issues were at the heart of "MORO," a Franco-German spatial planning pilot project. In order to report on the results of this project, the ANCT and the MOT are organising a webinar on 1 December entitled "How to move forward with spatial planning in border areas".
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TERRITORIES
Interview with the Department of Moselle and the Metz Eurometropolis
June 2023On the border between France, Germany and Luxembourg, the cross-border territory hosting the MOT’s general assembly on June 27th and 28th, 2023, in Metz is a hub for cross-border news, projects and issues. Joint interview with Patrick Weiten, president of the department of Moselle and former member of Parliament, and François Grosdidier, president of Metz Eurometropolis and mayor of Metz.
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TERRITORIES
Development of cooperation between the Nice Côte d'Azur Metropolitan Area and the Province of Imperia
June 2023A meeting between Christian Estrosi, mayor of Nice and president of the Nice Côte d'Azur Metropolitan Area, and Claudio Scajola, mayor of Imperia and president of the Province of Imperia, on the 19th of May in Nice, provided an opportunity to present a cross-border coastal development programme between the Nice Côte d'Azur Metropolitan Area and the Province of Imperia, and another programme focusing on the mountains between the Vésubie and Tinée valleys and the neighbouring valleys of the Provinces of Imperia and Cuneo.
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TERRITORIES
A report on employment for the European Metropolis of Lille: what opportunities on a cross-border scale?
May 2023This study, which has just been published by the Institut Montaigne, establishes a detailed diagnosis of the employment situation in the territory of the European Metropolis of Lille, and aims to identify the various levers that would allow action to be taken to better match the Lille labor market.
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TERRITORIES
A subjective map for the Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai cross-border living area
May 2023To produce a map based on the feelings of citizens, the Forum of the Eurometropolis Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai - who constitutes its citizen assembly - launched this project a year ago to capture the "emotional landscape of the cross-border living area".
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TERRITORIES
The RECOTTE project on the ecological transition has revealed its results
May 2023Financed within the framework of the Interreg Grande Région program, the RECOTTE [RECOnversion of Territories through Ecological Transition] project focused on the reconversion of territories through ecological transition on a local cross-border scale.
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TERRITORIES
Discover the different missions of the MOT on the whole French-Belgian border
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PUBLICATION
ARL report on cities and metropolises in France and Germany
April 2023Following the conference "Cities and Metropolises in France and Germany" on March 14th, this report of the ARL (Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association) is available in French and in English. It includes a contribution by Jean Peyrony, Franziska Sielker and Thomas Perrin, entitled "Cross-border territorial cooperation between France and Germany: evolution, convergence and perspectives".
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EUROPE
A pilot project supported by DG REGIO and the OECD
April 2023At the beginning of 2023, the DG REGIO of the European Commission together with the OECD have launched a pilot project for multi-level governance and the development of co-developed cross-border strategies.
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TERRITORIES
Greater Geneva invites the public to contribute to its "Cross-border territorial vision"
April 2023How to live and move in the Greater Geneva of tomorrow? To answer this question, the Canton of Geneva, the Metropolitan Pole of the French Genevois and the Nyon Region are inviting residents to question the territorial development of the cross-border conurbation during eight citizen workshops to be held from April 24th to May 11th.
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TERRITORIES
A cross-border IBA for the Greater Region?
March 2023Following the model of the IBA that has been set up in Basel, a laboratory workshop has been commissioned by the Saarland to study the feasibility of an "Internationale Bau Austellung" (International Architecture and Urban Planning Exhibition) in the Greater Region.
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MOT
"Small Towns of Tomorrow" goes beyond borders
December 2022The MOT provides tailored support to several territories to facilitate the emergence of projects and links with national and European partners as part of the "Small Towns of Tomorrow" programme of the Agence Nationale de la Cohésion des Territoires (the National Agency for Territorial Cohesion).
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TERRITORIES
The parc des carrières: A new green lung for the Basel Trinational Eurodistrict
December 2022The gradual conversion of a quarry in Saint-Louis, close to the French, Swiss and German borders, offers a promising opportunity for the agglomeration.
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TERRITORIES
Editorial by Pierre-Marc KNAFF, President of the Alzette Belval EGTC
November 2022Since its establishment in 2013, the Alzette Belval EGTC has been working daily basis for more than 100,000 inhabitants of four Luxembourgian and eight French municipalities.
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TERRITORIES
Esch2022, a cross-border European Capital of Culture
November 2022Since its application for the title of "European Capital of Culture", the city of Esch-sur-Alzette, on the Luxembourgian side of the border, has emphasised the cross-border dimension of its territory and has integrated French municipalities and partners.
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TERRITORIES
Towards a Franco-Luxembourg cross-border development zone?
November 2022The Terres Rouges slag heap is a strategic site for the Alzette-Belval territory.
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TERRITORIES
Creation of an SEML for a cross-border heating network
November 2022In the Franco-German region of Strasbourg-Kehl, the municipalities are in the process of implementing a flagship cross-border cooperation project for the extension of urban heating networks. Soon, the waste heat from the local steel mill will supply thousands of households on both sides of the Rhine.
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EUROPE
Culture along borders…it’s of Capital importance!
July 2022What do Lille, Esch-sur-Alzette (LU), Nova Gorica (SI), Timișoara (RO), Mons (BE) and Novi Sad (SRB) have in common?
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EUROPE
A DG REGIO call for projects to support "New European Bauhaus local initiatives": EGTCs can apply!
April 2022The call selects inspiring projects focused on the transformation of infrastructures or public spaces that promote the three complementary values of the "New European Bauhaus": sustainability, aesthetics and inclusion. Towns (or groupings of municipalities) of fewer than 100,000 inhabitants can apply. EGTCs are also eligible.