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The three Franco-Belgian EGTCs sign a memorandum addressed to France’s presidency
January 2022
On the initiative of the Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai Eurometropolis, the three EGTCs working along the Franco-Belgian border signed a memorandum addressed to France’s presidency of the EU.
"Europe must play its role of facilitating and supporting the daily lives of border region inhabitants and cross-border workers, who represent one in three people across Europe. The three EGTCs wish France to focus European policy on the development of cross-border regions, which is still hampered by many obstacles."
"EGTCs are innovative and pioneering structures on the European Union’s 40 internal borders, which are created by Europe itself. It would be natural for the European Union to invest more in the cooperation initiatives that enable their cross-border living areas to develop and flourish more. They are a local key to European construction. It is they that forge the strongest and most lasting links between the countries of the EU, in close contact with its citizens."
* The Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai Eurometropolis, West-Vlaanderen/Flandre-Dunkerque-Côte d’Opale and the Plaine de la Scarpe et de l’Escaut.
