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image by Olivier Touzeau, 11 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 Skĺne
Eurometropolis
Lille–Kortrijk–Tournai is a binational metropolitan area in the European Union
around the French city of Lille, and the Belgian
cities Kortrijk and Tournai.
It covers the local regions Lille Métropole, south-eastern West Flanders (4
districts) and Wallonie Picarde (3 districts), gathering 147 municipalities in
total: about 2,200,000 inhabitants on 3,589 km˛.
Olivier Touzeau, 11
January 2019
The flag can be seen for example at the seat of the Métropole européenne de
Lille. It is white with the logo of the Eurometropolis:
https://www.google.fr/maps/@50.6417488,3.0757052
https://www.google.fr/maps/@50.6416898,3.0761269
Olivier Touzeau, 11 January 2019