We no longer know how to take the “gift-problem” from Luxembourg to Lorraine. Gift, because the president of Metz Métropole hammered it: “Luxembourg has more than 100,000 cross-border jobs, ie as many as in mines and steel at the time. “Problem, because François Grosdidier admitted:” The recruitment shortage in Lorraine is even stronger than elsewhere in France. “A tip of the iceberg actually. Because his predecessor insisted more generally on incredible disparities in the wealth of territories, paralyzing any cross-border impetus on investment.
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Empty the sea with a teaspoon?
To try to better challenge Paris, “and to coordinate the files between inter-municipal authorities”, François Grosdidier therefore pushed for the adoption of a charter on Tuesday, in Bouzonville, known as “cooperation of the North Lorrain territory”. Sixteen intercos are included in the loop, from Longuyon to Boulay, via Briey-Thionville-Metz. With the head of the duck of Meurthe-et-Moselle, Longwy-Villerupt, and beyond the current cross-border metropolitan pole, of which Metz is not part: “A logical territory, which also historically corresponds to what was the Moselle ”, dares François Grosdidier, referring to the departmental divisions inherited from the Annexation. Not enough to scare the president of Department 54, Chaynesse Khirouni, also present for a side conference: “Everyone has their role, but each time we worked separately, it worked against us”.
The charter refers to a necessary “collective mobilization” on issues such as mobility, attractiveness, health, etc. We can sense a strong intention: “Move forward case by case, not a new structure in addition,” insisted François Grosdidier. At the same time as an implacable observation and a form of powerlessness to act on essentially national issues: “The French State has still not taken the dimension of the catastrophe”, released Michel Liebgott, the president of the interco de la Fensch.
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