After Christian Ariès and Michel Liebgott, Pierre Cuny assumes the presidency of the Metropolitan Border Pole, created in January 2019 and which today brings together eight intercommunals in northern Lorraine: Thionville-Portes de France, Val de Fensch, l’agglo de Longwy, l ‘ Arch of the Moselle, the Pays-Haut-Val d’Alzette, Cattenom and its surroundings, the heart of the Pays-Haut and the Land of Lorraine in Longuyonnais. That is 150 municipalities and 340,000 inhabitants. In October 2021, the PMF participated, for the first time, in the Franco-Luxembourg Intergovernmental Conference (IGC), in Esch-sur-Alzette. A recognition by the state that allows it to be a real force for proposals and guidelines. But not only! “We must build concrete projects in collaboration with the Grand Duchy which, until now, had two interlocutors on the French side: the State and the Region of the Grand Est”, explains Pierre Cuny, mayor of Thionville and president of Thionville-Portes de France.
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The objectives are therefore well defined. The PMF actions cover four areas: mobility, economic development and culture, health and services (especially early childhood), higher education and vocational training. Pierre Cuny intends in particular to collaborate with the Alzette-Belval EGTC and the ProSud trade union, which brings together eleven municipalities in the south of the Grand Duchy. For the moment, the PMF is preparing the next IGC where it will present its “multimodal program for the interoperability and development of Franco-Luxembourg mobility”. In fact, this is a project that should allow the intelligent installation of P + R car parks on the territory of the cluster, in connection with the creation of high-level bus networks. Knowing that the new president is campaigning for the last 10 kilometers of the trip to work not to do in the car.
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