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Greater Region What else ?
24/09/2015
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Philippe LEDENT
President of the economicand social Committee of the
Greater RegionPresidente del Comité Económico y Social de la Gran Región
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The Greater Region (French: Grande Région, German: Großregion) is the area of 5 regions (4 countries) namely: Lorraine, Luxembourg, Saarland,
Rhineland-Palatinate, Wallonia and the rest of the French Community of Belgium, and the German-speaking Community of Belgium
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The Greater Region
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ZOOM:The Greater Region on the EU map
Located in the heart of Europe
11,5 mio inhabitants
65.500 km2
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And much more:
•The Greater Region Business Days 17/06 and 18/06/2015
http://www.gr-businessdays.com/
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Wallonia
•Good logistic infrastructure
•Top quality of the Higher Eduction
•Industries (wood…)
•Nice real estate opportunities
•Excellent connections with the neighbour regions
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Lorraine
•Tourist economy
•Industry Parc Metz-Châteauroux Sino-French
•Industrial tissue
•High Gastronomy
•Excellent connections with the neighbour regions
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Saarland
•Industry (automobile, ICT, china)
•Good logistic infrastructure
•Gateway to France
•Excellent connections with the neighbour regions
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Rhineland-Palatinate
•Industries (glass, chemical and pharma, china, automobile...)
•Lots of higher eduction institutions
•Excellent connections to the neighbour countries
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Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg
•House of Biohealth
•Logistic Hub, Incubators
•Freeport near the airport
•Financial know how
•Excellent connections with the neighbour regions
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• 5 regions - 5 strengths put together in the Greater Region in order to achieve greater goals
• All (brains) in one !
ICT, cleantech, biotech, fintech, RDI, nature, gastronomy, organic food…
• Try and find out the benefits of the Greater Region
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• For more information, the Chamber of commerce of the different regions:
Wallonia: www.ucm.be or www.uwe.be
Lorraine: www.nancy.cci.fr, ww.lorraine.cci.fr
Saarland: www.saarland.ihk.de
Rhineland-Platinate: www.pfalz.ihk24.de
Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg: www.cc.lu
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• ESCGR receives a mandate from the Summit of the GR (since 1995) and has also the right to self-referral (auto-saisine).
Submits resolutions to the Summit GR.
• Secretariat of the Summit of GR (since 2014)
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• ESCGR (fr.: CESGR), (since 1997), Secretariat ESCGR is a part of the ESCGR: advisory organ, dialog with social partners
• IPC (Interregional Parliamentary Council), (since 1986): advisory parliamentary assembly of the GR
• Summit GR, ESCGR, IPC = 3 key pillars of the political architecture of crossborder cooperation
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• 2015/2016: Presidentship of Wallonia in the frame of the 15th Summit of GR
• The ESCGR has 4 working groups (WG):WG1: EconomyWG2: TransportWG3: Labour marketWG4: Health and Silver Economy
Each WG is led by a president.Industry Booster Group
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Contact:•M. Philippe LEDENT, President of the Economic and Social Committee of the Greater Region (ESCGR) T. +32 497443702
•Secretariat of the Economic and Social Committee of the Greater RegionB.P.402, L-4005 Esch-sur-Alzette
[email protected], T. + 352 247-80116
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Any questions?