Welcome to Aquitaine
“Like its three million inhabitants, enjoy the Aquitaine region”. Alain Rousset, president of the Aquitaine Regional Council.
The Aquitaine Region is governed by a Regional Council, an assembly of 85 members elected by universal suffrage and an Economic and Social Council.
The Regional Council, which is the council with the youngest members in all French local and regional authorities, endeavours to go about politics in a new way and to experiment with new forms of public action.
It makes it possible for the people of Aquitaine to be involved in the main strategic orientations of regional – but also national and international – policy. It ensures the consistency of the policies pursued on the territories it is made of and which have an economy, a knowledge, a culture and a heritage in common.
The Region plays a role in areas as varied as economic (...)
Read moreRegional priorities
- Innovation: a priority
- Dynamic employment
- One requirement: quality
- Equal opportunities
- Environmental protection
- A world-oriented region
Regional identity
Regional Assembly
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Aquitaine spirit inside
Visit also...
- - Tourism
- - International conferences
- - Aerospace Valley
- - Nutrition and health
- - Cooperation
- - Interreg IV
- - ecocamps
- - Flavours events
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