Their dislike of the former stars of the new economy remains intactJean LeonettiThere are large on the heartThe other two proposals to impose themselves9 million and by collecting 16 billion eurosStill to agree on the duration of the stayAlso a European quality label was createdMore than 3700 active patents is not nothingThe Housing Ministry follows closely the subjectExports of wines excluding Champagne grew by 12It must also embark on the Internet on the TVSome are already as of the most resounding flop of the territorial reform recently adopted by Parliament ("Les Echos" of November 18). Metropolis status, which can now claim immediately eight very large conurbations of France, Paris and the Ile-de-France, is really the fervor of the concerned officials. The first time enthusiasts, themselves, give the impression of having ceased to believe them. Grand Lyon is "France the more integrated urban community". "Create a metropolis do bring us nothing more", now considers Gérard Collomb, the Socialist Mayor of Lyon and Senator for the Rhône.
Alain Ries, counterpart of Strasbourg, is barely more satisfied. "It is not up to the ambitions displayed", he said. From the top of its 450,000 inhabitants, urban community of Strasbourg but received an amendment on measure to enter into this club where the entry ticket is 500,000 minimum inhabitants.
On the Marseilles area, the idea of Metropolis are about as many supporters as opponents. The UMP MP Renaud Muselier flirts with the project of a metropolis encompassing Aix-en-Provence, Toulon, Arles and Avignon, including the Mayor, Marie-Josée Roig (UMP) is the only one to not take shading. At Toulon, on the other hand, his colleague Hubert Falco (UMP) "won't be the suppletive of Marseille".
Little power and more
Further to the East, Christian Estrosi, Mayor of Nice and President (UMP) of the urban community, an ardent defender of the metropolitan dimension of the Côte d'Azur, is to fold. Jean Leonetti, (UMP) Mayor of Antibes, who chairs the agglomeration community of Sophia-Antipolis, and Bernard Brochand, Mayor (UMP) of Cannes, refuse to hear. But the project of the former Minister of industry has not made the soul. Municipalities located more to the East, to the Italian border, could ensure his salvation. Toulouse, the evolution of the urban community towards a metropolis is also seen with goodwill, but also with infinite caution, as the interest to create such a structure is not blatant.
The cities have more skills than urban communities (CU), the further joint Board level in this area. The new law transfers them only highways and school transport, attributes of the departments, and the promotion of their territory and its economic activities, previously managed by the regions. If the metropolis, want to them to negotiate with General advice, which are not necessarily prepared to strip.
Be a metropolis yields nothing, both from the point of view of the holdings of the State of taxation. The Association of mayors of France (MFA), in the parliamentary debate, there has developed good order by making disappear the automatic character of the transfer of the property tax of Commons.
"True reform would initially provide the large urban areas of balanced governance", it is argued in the urban communities of France (ACUF) Association. In deliberative bodies of these structures, the voice of a small peripheral commune counts as much as that of a more central city. "The cities would crush the will of the Commons", said Jacques Pélissard, President of AMF.
The concept of metropolitan centre, part of the territorial reform, might have more success. "Cities are agree to major projects in a mixed Union", says an expert. Lyon and Saint-Etienne are ready to cooperate in such a framework, including to develop and harmonize the supply of transportation and major cultural events. The towns of Metz and Nancy are moving in this direction.
