This territorial body will disappear at the end of 2025 in Loire-Atlantique: we tell you why

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Except for the president and some members of the office, the elected officials themselves no longer wanted the Nantes Vineyard Country.

Last June, the two intermunicipalities that make it up, Clisson Sèvre et Maine agglo and Sèvre et Loire, expressed, in a letter sent to its president Aymar Rivallin, their wish to put an end to the “Pays du Vignoble Nantes”. And so to no longer sit around the table of this component of the territorial mille-feuille.

Silent until then, although annoyed by its gradual dismantling, the latter resigned himself to accept. At the end of 2025, the entity will no longer exist.

The Nantes Vineyard Country has disintegrated

In turn, this body born at the beginning of the 21st following the promulgation of the Voynet lawa lost the missions that made its existencee. The Nantes Vineyard Country has disintegrated. From the inside. First of all, seeing the various environmental programs (energy plan, climate plan, etc.) return to intermunicipalities.

Same path for the reception and distribution of European subsidies, organized under the Leader committee, which, through careful examination of the regulations, allowed the agglomeration to manage them directly. Then, seeing from Basse-Goulaineconsidering itself to be more focused on the Nantes metropolis. Imitated more recently by Vertou who announced his departure on December 31.

Finally, by observing, the tourist office pack your bags to create a local public companyhere too, directly linked to intercommunalities.

Under these conditions, the latter considered that the format of the Pays du Vignoble Nantes “was no longer adapted to the situation”, taking as an excuse “the various territorial reforms which have modified the institutional landscape”.

They made this known by mail last June, even if, behind the scenes, it was more the financing of a a certain number of investments for the Nantes Vineyard Museum, hated by some of the elected officials, who did gnashing of teeth and provoking divorce.

Disintegration at the end of 2025

Aymar Rivallin, the president, noted this deterioration. Bitterly. On February 22, 2024, during the budgetary orientation debate, he mentioned “the clearing in progress” noting “the lack of elegance of the presidents of the two intermunicipalities” in certain crucial meetings for the future of the Country, while he had “defended its prerogatives for 22 years”.

Since then, he had remained silent. Even after receiving the two letters. During the union committee, in mid-October, where the point on territorial reorganization was included, the mayor of Maisdon-sur-Sèvre therefore declared the end of the country. By the end of 2025.

However, remain three entities to reorient. First the territorial coherence schemeresponsible for define the layout of the Nantes vineyard. A legislative obligation. Its revision is still in progress. It will continue to exist under a single-purpose union, to which the two intermunicipalities will be members. No other choices.

For the museum and the Pays d'art et d'histoire label, there is no question of closing or destroying them. The tourist office, under its new status, should recover its management. Finally, each intercommunity should host its development council, consultative body made up of citizens, economic, social and associative actors, which contributes to the reflection and development of local public policies.

For this reorganization, we will request legal support

For this premature dissolution, the chosen one received astonishing unanimity. Without debate.

It's no longer the time for observations anyway.

We must see this transformation as a transition. A smooth evolution of entities. Do it calmly, neatly.

The pending personnel question

Aymar Rivallin obtained a few commitments before leaving his position. In 2025, the artistic and cultural educational projects, Ciap (Architecture and Heritage Interpretation Center), renewal of the Pays d’art et d’histoire conventionof architectural chartermust be continued.

He also obtained the possibility of having the budgets necessary to celebrate the museum’s 30th anniversaryan exhibition project in the summer of 2025 and cultural programming too. For the rest, during the next termfrom 2026, this will no longer be its responsibility.

However, there remains personnel issue. His future was not discussed during the meeting. There are around a dozen agents working. There were more of them not so long ago, but some have already left their posts. For the rest, the work is reclassification. Not easy.

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