European Collectivity of AlsaceCollectivité européenne d'Alsace (French) | |
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Status | Collectivity of the French Republic |
Capitaland largest city | Strasbourg 48°35′N 7°45′E / 48.583°N 7.750°E / 48.583; 7.750 |
Official language | French |
Regional languages | Alsatian Welche Meridional Frankish Rhine Frankish |
Demonym(s) | Alsatian |
Government | |
• President of the Assembly | Frédéric Bierry |
Legislature | Assembly of Alsace |
Establishment | |
• Creation | 1 January 2021 |
Area | |
• Total | 8,280 km2 (3,200 sq mi) |
Population | |
• 2021 census | 1,919,745 |
ISO 3166 code | FR-6AE |
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The European Collectivity of Alsace (French: Collectivité européenne d'Alsace; Alsatian: D'Europäischa Gebiatskärwerschàft Elsàss; German: Europäische Gebietskörperschaft Elsass) is a territorial collectivity in the Alsace region of France. On 1 January 2021, the departments of Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin merged into a territorial collectivity but remained part of the region Grand Est. The creation of this new entity was voted by the French Parliament on 25 July 2019 and Law 2019-816 delimiting its powers was promulgated on 2 August 2019.
Alsatian voters had already voted in favour of the creation of a single territorial collectivity in a referendum in 2013; however, in the less populous of the two departments, Haut-Rhin, a majority of voters had rejected the proposal.
The original Region of Alsace, created in 1956, ceased to exist on 1 January 2016 when the French parliament voted to merge some administrative regions, reducing their number from 22 to 18.
Alsace has an intermediary status: its competencies are those of a department, plus some of the competencies of a region. Alsace is therefore less autonomous than Corsica or the overseas departments and regions.
While French is the sole official language of the country according to Article 2 of the Constitution of France, Law 2019-816 contains provisions to promote regional languages at school. The collectivity will also be tasked to create a Committee related to the German language in Alsace. This last provision is closely related to Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 of the Aachen Treaty.
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