The president of the Moselle Departmental Council presented his wishes this Friday, January 24 at the Metz Robert Schuman Congress. The opportunity to look back on a year 2024 rich in sport, and to talk about the future.
It was in front of a packed room that the president of the Moselle Departmental Council presented his wishes. But before talking about the future, the President looked back at a year 2024 rich in events.
The legacy of the Games
How can we talk about 2024 without talking about the excitement of the Olympic Games in Moselle. Patrick Weiten, president of the Moselle Departmental Council, looked back on a year rich in sport and celebration. He underlined the influence and the gain in notoriety of the department in terms of attractiveness. Olympic medalists, the welcome of 15 delegations from all over the world and an agreement signed with the Brazilian volleyball federation.
“The legacy of the Games is not to let things die down. It’s sport for everyone, everywhere, Olympic and Paralympic. I want every sports club to have a Paralympic section. It’s school sport, senior sport. In March, we will present our plan for the legacy of Paris 2024 »says the president of the Departmental Council.
While a reduction in the sports budget in France is announced, Patrick Weiten expressed his concern about this drastic reduction. “We are reducing grants to local authorities. Unfortunately, the first budgets that will support this reduction are sport and culture. This is definitely not what is needed. Because sport and culture are about living well together. »
-Moselle cap 2050
“I don’t know how to work from one year to the next. We need to plan for the short, medium and long term future.”. The president of the Departmental Council announced his project Moselle cap 2050. “We know we have housing problems. We know that we have objectives of excellence with the resources and energies that we discover in the subsoil of the East Moselle. We have a revival. I will make a statement in the coming months, we are going to change the way we approach this territory so that it regains its rightful place. » A course towards 2050 announced, which follows the demographic projection of INSEE which predicts 250,000 fewer inhabitants in the department within twenty years.
Resources in water, coal gas, white hydrogen, the Moselle has not finished making people talk about it. “The department must absolutely support this evolution of the landscape. » For now, the president wants to focus on housing and health. “We have a departmental housing plan which is adopted in March. I want to experiment. There is a building that is closed, degraded housing, how can we appropriate this building, transform it and put it back on the market. »
For health, the creation of a departmental health center is mentioned. “We are going to install in the territories, we have chosen two for the moment, I will announce it in the coming months, in which we will recruit doctors, install them, they will be departmental staff. We must restore new attractiveness to areas that need it. »
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