The bridge underneath connects a unique pair of villages:  Komen, a Walloon enclave in Flanders, and the French market town of Commines. Here three regions peacefully join hands, profiting from the differences in tax regulations as well as from the commodities they share.

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Contact: Kathleen.bevernage@pandora.be (Groen! Ieper), Écolo Commines ecolocw@gmail.com  And a bit further, in Lille, the local group considers setting up crossborder connections and actions as well. Contact Céline Scavennec (general secretary Verts de Lille)  celinesca@yahoo.fr

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On 29 April they meet to make plans. One of them might be to organise a joint (boat?) campaign event for the European elections.

The local branches from, Écolo, Groen! and Les Verts, have joined forces as well. the share best practices in biological vegetable baskets; fight a new

A24 road parallel to the old one and have organising a joint boat trip on the river Lesse which separates and links French and Belgian Flanders.