On March 8th, 2023, the French Minister of Labor, Full Employment and Integration, Olivier Dussopt, presented to the Council of Ministers the draft law establishing a legal framework for cross-border apprenticeships.
Around thirty Belgian and French elected representatives met in Mons (Belgium) on February 17th to share their expectations and priorities in order to establish a cooperation strategy for the cross-border Sambre-Avesnois, with the support of the MOT.
"By studying the past, history allows the present to build bridges to the future", this is the motto under which the Franco-German Citizen Fund has just launched a call for projects entitled "Journey through time".
In order to promote and disseminate its expertise, the MOT regularly contributes articles to scientific journals or external monographs. From territorial and European cohesion, governance, and bilateral treaties, to legal issues and the analysis of the impact of border closures, the subjects covered are numerous and diverse.
Marie-Antoinette Maupertuis, President of the Corsican Assembly and member of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR), answers our questions following the publication of her report to the CoR on regions with "geographic and demographic handicaps". What about border areas?
Following 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.
Join the new public consultation for the new Thematic Action Plans launched by the ESPON Programme.
In the framework of the "b-solutions initiative", AEBR is collecting cases of cross-border obstacles.
The Scarpe-Escaut European Nature Park, located on the French-Belgian border, has obtained the "Transboundary Park" label from the European Federation of Nature Parks, Europarc.
The first MOT general assembly of 2023 was held virtually on February 7th, with more than 80 participants online, including many elected representatives from all over France. The validation of the budget and the 2023 work programme, the presentation of the new members since the last General Assembly (the Community of Municipalities of Guillestrois Queyras, and the Department of Meuse) and a debate with David Djaïz, General Rapporteur of the National Council for Refoundation, were all on the agenda.
At the end of 2022, the Commission published its report "Cross-border public services: CPS inventory analysis and policy recommendations".
On January 26th, 2023, the eight partners* of Greater Geneva signed a "Greater Geneva in transition" charter, agreeing on the ecological transition issues for the cross-border conurbation.
Supported financially by the Interreg ALCOTRA programme, the "Developing Active Citizenship" (DAC) project aims to raise citizens' awareness of the challenges of the Green Pact for Europe.
The European Commission organized a major conference on cross-border employment on January 18-19, 2023, in Brussels and online. It addressed different key topics related to cross-border employment such as the access to cross-border labour markets, education, the recognition of qualifications, social security aspects, taxation and teleworking.
Mountain areas are particularly exposed to climate change: the mutations of ecosystems and their consequences on human activities develop more quickly and have stronger impacts than in plains.
With magazine#3 of the newsletter, which has just been published, discover the highlights of cross-border cooperation over the last six months!
Representatives of the Upper Rhine met on January 19th in Strasbourg. They called for their territory to become "a springboard for the development of European railways".
On Thursday, January 19th, 2023, President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Pedro Sànchez signed an important Franco-Spanish cooperation treaty, the "Treaty of Barcelona ", in the Catalan capital. What advances does it contain in terms of cross-border cooperation?
At the invitation of the Regions of France and the Grand Est Region, a meeting between representatives of the French regions and members of the Conference of Ministers of European Affairs was held in Strasbourg on the 17th and 18th of January 2023.
On the agenda of the working meeting between the MOT and minister Dominique Faure: A "roadmap" for cross-border cooperation On January 10th, 2023, MOT president Christian Dupessey*, accompanied by director-general Jean Peyrony and secretary-general Aurélien Biscaut, were invited to a work meeting by minister Dominique Faure**.
The MOT has been asked to address a new obstacle to cross-border cooperation in the context of the 2022 call for b-solutions projects. It concerns a case brought by its member, the Alzette Belval EGTC, which aims to establish of a France-Luxembourg medical emergency management community.
The SaarMoselle Eurodistrict, which has been a member of the MOT network since 2005, answers our questions about a subject at the heart of local life in the cross-border living area.
125 cross-border projects were officially approved at the plenary session of the Collectivité Européenne d'Alsace (CEA) held on December 8th. The topic of energy took center stage!
After many months of negotiations, Switzerland and France have finally reached an agreement on the taxation of cross-border telework, an issue that concerns hundreds of thousands of workers.
On December 14th, 2022, the closing conference of the first Franco-German spatial planning pilot project (MORO) was held in Strasbourg, with Jean Peyrony, director general of the MOT, and other experts sharing their knowledge at several round tables.
