Alsace is back.
From Saturday 2 October, motorists will be able to choose Alsace / Elsass license plates with the red “A coeur” in the shape of a pretzel.
To tell the truth, thousands of cars still circulate with the flag of the former Alsace region rather than with the logo of the Grand Est.
This Saturday, the 46 departmental councilors of Bas-Rhin and their 34 counterparts from Haut-Rhin - an assembly mainly on the right and in the center - will meet in Colmar to "install" the European Collectivity of Alsace.
Resulting from the merger of the two Alsatian departmental councils, the CEA is more than a simple department.
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However, this is not the region claimed, poll after poll, by two thirds of Alsatians, relayed by very active regionalist associations.
Even if, in front of the German and Swiss neighbors, the new community appears as the “EuroRegion Elsass”.
Something to irritate the neighbors of Lorraine and Champagne.
Erased from the map
Alsace has come a long way.
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