TERRITORIES
"Territoires no(s) limit(es)"
October 2016Nearly 600 people gathered for the 37th national meeting of urban planning agencies on 5-7 October in the Basque Country.
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PUBLICATION
"Grand Est : L'Europe entre voisins"
October 2016Published by Correspondances Lorraines. Author: Pascale Braun. October 2016. Retail price: €20. Title in English: "The Greater East Region: Europe among Neighbours"
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TERRITORIES
European days of cross-border cooperation in Nice
October 2016Organised by the Nice Côte d’Azur Metropolis,* the European days of cross-border cooperation held in Nice on 21-22 September were a great success, with nearly 400 participants.
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TERRITORIES
Construction of Greater Geneva: Switzerland and France linked by a railway tunnel
October 2016On 23 September 2016, the two sides of underground route of the future cross-border rail link between Geneva and Annemasse were joined up by French and Swiss teams.
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EUROPE
Launching of the Working Group on innovative solutions to cross-border obstacles
September 2016Following the Luxembourg Presidency of the Council of the EU (2nd half of 2015) and its proposal to create a new legal tool for cross-border cooperation, a Working Group on innovative solutions to cross-border obstacles was established by Luxembourg and France. The first meeting of the Working Group was held in Vienna on July 5th 2016.
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MOT
New section devoted to obstacles to cooperation
September 2016A new section on the MOT's website sets out the issues involved in identifying and resolving obstacles to cross-border cooperation.
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MOT
Updating of the MOT's legal resources: a toolkit for players involved in cooperation
September 2016This summer, the MOT completely updated its online legal resources relating to cross-border cooperation law.
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NATIONAL LEVEL
The "ACTS" project (Support for cross-border cooperation in the Sahel)
September 2016The "ACTS" project* was launched in February 2015 by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development.** It is a Priority Solidarity Fund project financed by France. It aims to help Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso preserve their sovereignty through better management of border regions with respect to security and local development.
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NATIONAL LEVEL
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region "SRDEII"
September 2016In the context of drawing up its SRDEII,* the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region asked the MOT, of which it is a member, to carry out an assessment of cross-border issues in the Region (which borders on Switzerland and Italy) that could be included in a cross-border component of the regional programme.
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MOT
Findings of the policy forum "Security and development: how to manage borders?"
September 2016The migrant crisis and threats to security have placed borders centre stage. Having become an extremely political topic, the public authorities still perceive them in a fragmented way.
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EUROPE
Studies presented by the Committee of the Regions
September 2016The EGTC Platform of the Committee of the Regions has presented three recent studies on cross-border cooperation.
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TERRITORIES
Four new Interreg projects in the territory of the Basque Eurocity
September 2016"Connect Innovation Bai!", "MAREA", "H2Ogurea" and "EDERBIDEA" of the names of four of the new projects selected in the first call for projects under POCTEFA 2014-2020.
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NATIONAL LEVEL
"The migrant crisis: the return of borders"
September 2016TV programme "C dans l'air" on France 5 - Broadcast on 10 August 2016
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MOT
2016 project factsheet dossier
September 2016Every year, the MOT publishes an updated dossier presenting cross-border projects that may serve as examples.
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TERRITORIES
KUBIC, a cross-border music programme: coming back to a successful project!
September 2016Thanks to the Kubic project, which was led by the Saarmoselle Eurodistrict and funded by the Interreg IVA programme, five local French and German television stations pooled their know-how and technical resources to produce a weekly cross-border music programme.
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TERRITORIES
A 2020 territorial strategy for the SaarMoselle Eurodistrict
June 2016The SaarMoselle Eurodistrict has just adopted an action programme for the next five years.
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MOT
MOT Annual Conference: "Borders: a 'resource' for the inhabitants of border regions"
June 2016The Annual Conference of the MOT brought together 150 participants on 24 May 2016 in the Palais de la Porte Dorée, home of the French National Museum of the History of Immigration, in conjunction with the exhibition “Frontières” (“Borders”) currently on view.
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MOT
Annual meetings of the network and Technicians Platform
June 2016Following the annual conference, the meetings of the MOT's bodies took place on 25 May. The MOT's President, Michel Delebarre, presented its new members: the Cluster GAT Caraïbes, the Principality of Monaco, the Strasbourg-Mulhouse-Colmar Metropolitan Hub, the IDELUX-AIVE Group (Belgium) and KiosK Office.
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EUROPE
Third meeting of the Committee of the Regions' interregional group on cross-border cooperation
June 2016On Thursday 16 June, the MOT attended the third meeting of the Committee of the Regions' interregional group on cross-border cooperation (and EGTCs) chaired by Pavel Branda.
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EUROPE
Meeting of the CECICN in Brussels
June 2016The CECICN - Conference of European Cross-border and Interregional City Networks - held meetings of its political board and executive board on 15 June in Brussels in the presence of four of its member networks: the MOT, the CESCI (Central European Service for Cross-border Initiatives), the UBC (Union of Baltic Cities) and the FAIC (Forum of Adriatic and Ionian Cities).
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EUROPE
“Unemployment: what solutions in border regions?”
June 2016On 26 May 2016, Anne Sander, MEP and Vice-President of the MOT, chaired the fourth meeting of the working group on cross-border cooperation that she has coordinated at the European Parliament since June 2015. Around 40 experts, MPs, civil servants, staff and representatives of interest groups came together to discuss the solutions to unemployment in border regions.
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PUBLICATION
Joint spatial planning in Komarno and Komarom
June 2016Study carried out by the Central European Service for Cross-Border Initiatives (CESCI), 2016
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NATIONAL LEVEL
A platform to facilitate the mobility of territorial civil servants
June 2016The Institut National des Études Territoriales (INET) in Strasbourg has put online a platform designed to centralise a large amount of disparate information about French territorial civil servants' possibilities for mobility in Europe and internationally.
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EUROPE
"Acteurs, mobilisez-vous : le Plan Juncker finance vos projets !"
May 2016Lancé à l’automne 2014 par le président de la Commission européenne, le plan "Juncker" vise à relancer les investissements en particulier dans les infrastructures, les industries de demain et les compétences. Composé de deux volets – 75 milliards d’euros pour les PME et 240 milliards d’euros pour les infrastructures – il a été mis en œuvre rapidement sur le terrain.
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TERRITORIES
Effects of the reintroduction of border controls: the example of Strasbourg-Kehl
May 2016Intended to form an integrated urban entity within the framework of the "Two Banks" initiative structured around a tramline, which is scheduled to start running in 2017, the cities of Strasbourg and Kehl constitute an interesting barometer for the consequences of the reintroduction of controls along the French-German border.
