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"Experimenting with cross-border living areas", an ambitious project of the MOT network
April 2023The MOT, supported by sixteen partners of its network, initiated a "cross-border living areas experiment" at the end of 2022.
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TERRITORIES
Summit meeting for the High Valleys Conference (CHAV)
April 2023The representatives of the Hautes Vallées (High Valleys) territory (Maurienne, Grand Briançonnais, Pinerolese, Val di Susa e Sangone) met on March 28th at the Valfréjus mountain resort, just a few hundred metres from the French-Italian border.
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TERRITORIES
Terres Monviso, a forward-looking cooperation
March 2023On March 9th, the MOT took part in the final seminar of the Integrated Territorial Plan (PITer) "Terres Monviso", which was held in Guillestre (Hautes-Alpes), near the French-Italian border.
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Decarbonizing cross-border mobility, a real challenge!
March 2023On Friday, March 17th, 2023 the 3rd meeting of the MOT working group "Cross-border ecological transition" was held on the theme of decarbonizing cross-border mobility. The exchanges were organized in two parts.
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EUROPE
Three questions for Marie-Antoinette Maupertuis following the publication of her report on regions with geographic and demographic handicaps
February 2023Marie-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?
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TERRITORIES
Towards an active Franco-Italian citizenship with the "DAC" project
February 2023Supported 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.
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TERRITORIES
The Mont Blanc Observatory's report on climate change is now available!
February 2023Mountain 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.
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"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
Implementing the Quirinal Treaty: a meeting in Imperia
November 2022On October 24th 2022 in Imperia (Italy), a meeting entitled "The Quirinal Treaty, a signature that unites France and Italy: what opportunities for our territories?" was organised by the DITER research programme of the Université Côte d'Azur.
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EUROPE
The Critical Dictionary on Borders is finally available online!
November 2022Published in paper format in 2020, this major publication, to which the MOT contributed, is finally available online.
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The MOT publishes two new "Focus" on the environment and adaptation to climate change
October 2022The environment knows no borders, and neither does the climate!
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TERRITORIES
A new electrical link between France and Italy
October 2022As a further step towards the construction of the European electricity network, a new 190 km EHV line, entirely underground, is being built between Savoy and Piedmont. It will increase the electricity exchange capacity between France and Italy by 40%.
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TERRITORIES
French-Italian High Valleys: two new missions for the MOT
September 2022The summer of 2022 marked the launch of two parallel missions for the MOT concerning the territory of the Hautes Vallées Conference (CHAV) at two different territorial levels.
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TERRITORIES
The Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Region adopts a "Cross-border cooperation strategy"
September 2022This strategy, adopted by the Region on June 24th, 2022, takes place in the context of strengthened cooperation between France and Italy since the signing of the Quirinal Treaty at the end of 2021, as well as the historical links with the Principality of Monaco
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TERRITORIES
Three Franco-Italian cooperation agreements on civil security
September 2022On July 19th, three agreements on civil security and border security were signed between the prefecture of Savoie and that of Turin.
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BORDERS FORUM
Borders Forum 21&22 June in Paris: focus on governance with three key testimonies
May 2022Sandro Gozi, MEP, Jean de Béthune, President of the Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai Eurometropolis, and Christoph Schnaudigel, President of the PAMINA Eurodistrict, talk to us about governance – a crucial subject at the centre of the second day of the Borders Forum. Register now as places are limited! You can also access the event's press kit.
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NATIONAL LEVEL
Quirinal Treaty: Franco-Italian cross-border cooperation committee about to be set up
May 2022Cross-border co-operation was at the heart of the first of the four meetings devoted to the advances of the Quirinal Treaty. This bilateral treaty between France and Italy was signed by the two countries on 26 November last year.
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Hub/Banque des Territoires: a breakfast show devoted to cross-border cooperation
April 2022During this sequence programmed on 8 April as part of the Banque des Territoires and its Hub’s "Europe and Territories" breakfast shows, Jean Peyrony, the MOT’s Director-General, highlighted the major challenges of cross-border cooperation :
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In Nice, a cross-border citizens’ forum to shape tomorrow’s Europe
April 2022On 24-25 March 2022, at the invitation of the Nice Côte d’Azur Metropolis, the MOT had the pleasure of facilitating a Franco-Italian citizens’ forum against a very positive backdrop: the start of the European Year of Youth, the publication of the findings of the Conference on the Future of Europe, France’s presidency of the EU Council and the recent signing of the Quirinal Treaty between the two countries’ governments.
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Bringing together cross-border territories in preparation for 2022!
December 2021This autumn, and for the second consecutive year, the MOT organised nine “territorial meetings”, so as to keep in close contact with the members of its network, and involve them in preparing its annual programme. Held successively in Besançon, Strasbourg, Lille, Annemasse, Charleville-Mézières, Nice, Urrugne, Perpignan and Metz, both virtually and in person, the meetings brought together close to 200 participants in total.
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NATIONAL LEVEL
The Quirinal Treaty – a historical advance for Franco-Italian cross-border cooperation
December 2021On the eve of France’s presidency of the EU, the French President, Emmanuel Macron, and the head of the Italian government, Mario Draghi, have signed in Rome a bilateral cooperation treaty, the “Quirinal Treaty”. Sixty years after the signature of the Franco-German Élysée Treaty, this “friendship pact” is historical and marks the desire, at the highest level of state, to advance Franco-Italian cross-border cooperation.
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TERRITORIES
Towards greater cooperation around Monte Viso
December 2021Continuing a collaboration going back 30 years, the territories located south of Monte Viso (3,841 metres), the iconic mountain in the Southern Alps, are structuring their cooperation within the framework of an integrated territorial plan supported by the ALCOTRA programme, known as “Terres Monviso”.
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TERACTION: proactive Franco-Italian partners join the MOT’s network
December 2021On 5 November 2021, the MOT team had the pleasure of hosting the partners of the integrated territorial plan known as GraiesLab – Active And Innovative Rural Generations – in their offices for a work meeting.
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Cross-border monitoring of the 3DS bill (France) by the MOT
September 2021Following its adoption at its first reading in the Senate on 21 July 2021, the 3DS bill (standing for “differentiation, decentralisation, deconcentration and various measures to simplify local public action”) will be examined under a fast-track procedure in the Assemblée Nationale, in France, from the beginning of December. Taking on a number of the proposals put forward by the MOT, the senators adopted a series of amendments relating to cross-border issues.
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NATIONAL LEVEL
4D bill: The MOT's proposals to strengthen the cross-border component
June 2021In anticipation of the reading of the 4D bill in Parliament, the MOT, on behalf of its network, has sent to the co-rapporteurs of the Senate’s Law Commission on this legislation proposed amendments aimed at strengthening its cross-border component.
