Speaking at the meeting of the Monitoring Committee, the Mayor of Metz, Dominique Gros, stressed the importance of the fair distribution of taxes and charges between cross-border territories. "The report recently adopted by the Congress has helped to bring these issues collectively to the fore and to reverberate throughout the European political area," said the Mayor of Metz.
"This work has shown that solutions exist to ensure that cross-border territories respect the principles of equity and solidarity," he added, stressing the need for governments to take the necessary steps to reach compromises on these issues. "The Congress has made it possible to take a giant step towards greater cross-border solidarity, a step that the people of Lorraine would not have been able to take on their own in such a short space of time," he concluded.
Agenda and documents:
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See also:
- Flickr gallery
- News article "Fairer distribution of taxes in transfrontier areas"
- Webpage "Observation of local and regional elections"