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image by Olivier Touzeau, 23 January 2019
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The European Grouping for Territorial Cooperation (EGTC) is a European Union
level form of transnational cooperation between countries and local authorities
with legal personality (see some other regional entities in the
European Union.) An EGTC must have members from at least
two member states (or 1 member and 1 neighbouring country) and members can
include local or regional authorities, bodies "governed by public law within the
meaning of the second subparagraph of Article 1(9) of Directive 2004/18/EC", or
Member States. Among then, some metropolitan areas known as Eurodistricts are
EGTC:
- Strasbourg-Ortenau
- Freiburg im Breisgau-Centre et Sud Alsace
- Eurometropolis Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai
- Saar-Moselle
- Basel-Lörrach-St.
Louis-Weil am Rhein
- Greater Copenhagen and Skåne
The Eurodistrict
Strasbourg-Ortenau is a Franco-German eurodistrict, a European Grouping for
Territorial Cooperation established on 17 October 2005 and functional since
February 2010. The district is formed by the Eurométropole de Strasbourg and 3
French urban communities (of Rhinau, Erstein and Benfeld), and the Ortenau
district in the Baden-Württemberg region on the German side. The district has
915,000 inhabitants on 2,368 km².
The Eurodistrict's Council is composed
of 48 members, with 24 each representing either the French or the German side.
Olivier Touzeau,
23
January 2019
The flag of the district is blue with the logo in the center, see: https://twitter.com/eurodistrict/status/1070655753319563264
Olivier Touzeau, 23 January 2019