The Metropolis of Greater Paris, situation of the election within the capital | EUROtoday

Would the time of the Metropolis of Grand Paris lastly come? Created on 1er January 2016, this institutional entity positioned between the cities, the departments and the Ile-de-France area continues to be comparatively unknown and struggles to search out its place. But in current months, the metropolitan situation has returned to public debate and might be extra exploited in the course of the 2026 municipal marketing campaign in Paris.
In 2024, the Paris Olympic Games gave the Metropolis of Grand Paris the chance to expire because of the Olympic Aquatic Center in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), which welcomed the diving, inventive swimming and Water-Polo checks, and of which it was the consumer. Also proprietor of the location, it has since recovered the keys to the place and renamed it “Olympic aquatic center Métropole du Grand Paris”, whereas ready to have the ability to open it to most of the people, in June. What give somewhat visibility to this confidential establishment “Who did not pass the Sacups barrier”within the phrases of its president, Patrick Ollier (Les Républicains, LR).
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