Twinning

The twinning is the action to associate two identical or complementary things, such as for example the doubling of the wheels on each side of a Essieu of a truck to increase the possible load, the association of two or several weapons on the same mounting to allow the simultaneous shooting…

With the illustrated direction, a twinning is a relation established between two Ville S of different countries which are concretized by sociocultural exchanges. Nowadays, the majority of the important cities are twinned with several others villes.
The idea of twinning was born in the Années 1950 when it appeared that the only means of progressing in the plan of the international relations and of alleviating hatreds and rancours, especially after the conflict which had just torn the world and the Europe, was to weave bonds at the most elementary level, the commune, and thus, to establish close sociocultural relations with its neighbors. The initial objective consisted in exchanging knowledge, experiments, know-how in all the fields of the local life. To engage the traumatized populations of this Europe ruined of the post-war period to fraternize, concerned the challenge. However, the fifty European mayors who, in January 1951, founded the Council of the communes of Europe become thereafter the Conseil of the communes and areas of Europe (CCRE) belonged to the pioneers of plain Europe and thus more forte.

The Traité of the Elysium accelerated twinnings between the European cities.

Among the cultural exchanges, let us note that in parallel of various communal associations, the colleges and colleges of the twinned communes are recipients and help to promote the training of foreign languages thus.

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