France/Cognac wants to boost its historical twinning
Cognac is twinned with ten cities throughout the world, a record for the Charente. But it wishes to concentrate its efforts on the three "historic" ones: Germany, Spain and Scotland. By developing projects.
If we say Michalovce, do you know? And Pisco? Tovuz? Vyškov? These names should sound familiar to you. They are four of the ten cities with which Cognac is twinned. Ten of them. A record in the Charente, Angoulême has "only" nine. However, these twinning arrangements, which have developed considerably during Michel Gourinchas' term of office (six new ones in eight years), are mostly confidential and very few are the subject of real exchanges.
According to Monique Arramy, the faithful president of the twinning committee (since 2007), some of them are more political than cultural. "Some communes wanted to twin with us...
Source: www.charentelibre.fr/
