To mark the 35th anniversary of the twinning between Bénodet and Torpoint, a delegation from the association travelled to the other side of the Channel. "We were received at the town hall and presented with gifts, including an anniversary plaque from Henriot, which will adorn Bénodet Park in Torpoint. In exchange, we received an autographed vase to celebrate our 35th anniversary," enthused the participants. Thirty-four people took part in the trip.

Increasing transparency in the management of public finances is indeed the objective of public authorities and international partners.

Higher-than-expected revenues enabled the City of Sorel-Tracy to end fiscal 2022 with a surplus of $4.4 million.

Twelve former black "babies" retrained as upholsterers and carpenters received certificates of completion from the High Commissioner for Restorative Justice and the Prevention and Treatment of Juvenile Delinquency, Adolphe Mbou-Maba, in the presence of the mayor of the 4th arrondissement, Moungali, Bernard Batantou, and the president of the Artisans de Moungali association, Ghislaine Matondo.

At the opening of Thursday's town council meeting, Brigitte Lebert, deputy town councillor for culture, reported on the trip to the German twin town of Aspach over the May 8 weekend.

The two parties, who have signed a 4-year renewable partnership agreement, will focus on two key sectors: energy and vocational training.

The Regional Development Plan (PDR), which provides a forum for the convergence and integration of sectoral programs, is intended to be a "mobilizer, facilitator and incentive", said Mohamed Sadiki, Minister of Agriculture, Sea Fisheries, Rural Development and Water and Forests, on Friday in Guelmim.

Over the Ascension weekend, 51 Beaucouzé residents visited their friends in Selb, Bavaria. And at the beginning of the month, schoolchildren were also welcomed by their German correspondents. "Exchanges have been very fruitful", says the president of the twinning committee.

At the age of 22, Auréa, a political science student at UNamur, is the founder of the non-profit organization "Lueur d'espoir", which fights against menstrual precariousness. Every month, she organizes hygiene kit distributions in the streets of Wallonia's major cities to help women in precarious situations. We met her during a distribution in the streets of Charleroi.

Promoting good democratic governance is one of the priorities of the Latvian Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (May 17-November 15, 2023).

In Togo, the Haute Autorité de Prévention et de Lutte contre la Corruption et les Infraractions Assimilées (HAPLUCIA) will involve local authorities in the fight against corruption. To this end, between June and September 2023, it is planning a national capacity-building campaign for elected representatives and municipal executives.

In its report "Decentralization, 40 years on", the French Audit Office (Cour des Comptes) recommends a new stage in decentralization, to review the distribution of powers between the State and the various levels of local government. This would involve a further reduction in the number of communes, through mergers or the creation of communes-communautés.

In Plomodiern (Finistère), the municipal opposition would have liked a boost to keep up with inflation. A social subsidy of €37,497 was voted to cover social charges for canteen staff at Notre-Dame school.

Participants in a study day on the fight against the proliferation of drugs and psychotropic substances stressed on Wednesday in Blida the need to step up awareness-raising efforts to tackle this dangerous phenomenon.

The Gathering of Elected Officials of the Conference of Prefects of Abitibi-Témiscamingue, held Thursday in Amos and Friday in Landrienne, included announcements from the Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation.

On Thursday, Aïssatou Diokhané Sow, national coordinator of Senegal's urban modernization program (PROMOVILLES), visited road and sanitation sites in the communes of Foundiougne and Sokone, in the Fatick region (west), to see the progress of work costing over one billion six hundred million CFA francs undertaken in these two towns by the program.

The revitalization of the integrated territorial child protection system was the focus of a communication meeting held on Thursday at the Prefecture of the Casablanca-Anfa districts.

The Délégation pour l'action extérieure des collectivités territoriales (DAECT) and the association Sites et Cités remarquables de France (SCRF) have launched for the first time a three-year call for projects 2023-2025 "Heritage and decentralized cooperation" with the aim of supporting decentralized cooperation projects in the field of natural and built heritage.

The information was made public by Théoneste Mutsindashyaka, ambassador of the Republic of Rwanda to the Congo, following a meeting on May 23 with Evelyne Tchitchellé, mayor of the city of Pointe-Noire.

Turquoise waters, a fine sandy beach: Point Pelee National Park headlines one of the latest publications on the BlogTo website. A promotional campaign is well underway in the Greater Toronto Area to promote the Sud-Ouest region, which in summer becomes a popular destination for Canadian and American tourists.