MOT publications and studies

Be it for freight or for passengers, for occasional or daily travel, mobility is at the heart of cross-border life. This 11th MOT thematic Guide gives an overview of the experiences and policies conducted in the field of cross-border mobility in various European territories. It highlights a wide variety of projects, but also obstacles, issues and major challenges for the years to come.

Neither the climate nor energy recognise national borders. Cross-border territories, as players in the energy transition, can take full advantage of the opportunities for development that it offers. The tenth edition of the MOT Guides highlights the stakes of energy transition in cross-border territories. What are the good practices? What kind of obstacles are there and how to overcome them? How do the different levels of energy policy fit together in France? What are the European Commission’s political and financial instruments in the area of the energy transition?

The second component of the work conducted by MOT within the framework of the Luxembourg's presidency of the EU Council, provides an analysis of the creation of a legal tool that would be governed by a European regulation - which would allow local authorities, faced with a legal obstacle in the context of a cross-border project, to propose to their respective States a specific legal framework.

In the framework of its presidency of the EU Council in the second half of 2015, the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg placed the clearing of obstacles to cross-border cooperation at the centre of its priorities. A member of the MOT, the Grand-Duchy commissioned it to produce an analysis of the legal obstacles preventing or threatening the implementation of cross-border projects, along with potential solutions that might involve the introduction of a new European legal instrument.