• Low-emissions zone, waste sorting, new concierge service near the cathedral... New features are to be expected in Strasbourg and in the Eurometropolis from 1 January 2023.

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    also wondered what was going to evolve in Germany, where many Strasbourg residents and cross-border commuters in general often go.

  • Will 2023 also be the year of Alsace outside the Grand-Est?

    The question may arise after the scheduled departure of the president of the greater region Jean Rottner at the end of this year 2022.

Who says new year says novelties.

There will be several from this Sunday, January 1, 2023. At the national level of course (this is where it happens), but also in Strasbourg and around.

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lists the main ones.

Pay attention to your Crit'Air sticker!

ZFE Year 2. The deployment of the low-emissions-mobility zone (ZFE-m) continues within the Eurometropolis.

After the prohibition of circulation of Crit'Air 5 vehicles without sticker last year, the device is extended to holders of Crit'Air 4. Clearly, all diesel cars and utility vehicles registered before 2005 (2004 for motorcycles, 2010 for heavy goods vehicles) are no longer welcome on the territory of the 33 municipalities.

Those with a Crit'Air 5 sticker will even be fined, after a so-called pedagogical year 2022.

Amount of the fine: 68 euros for light vehicles, 135 euros for others.

Exactly the same amount for those who forget to affix their sesame on the windshield… On the other hand, no automatic control will be carried out before mid-2024.



Exemption requests are possible up to 24 days a year on a dedicated site.

Another exception, companies with light utilities have until 2031 to comply.

New in the yellow bins

Cardboard boxes, tin cans, milk bottles… Until now, you often had to think a little bit before putting your waste in the yellow bins, called recyclables.

From January 1, the sorting instructions are changing for the inhabitants of the Eurometropolis of Strasbourg.

From now on, all packaging and paper without exception will be put in the famous container: bottles, flasks, jars, trays, tubes of toothpaste, films that group together several products, etc.

This should make it possible "to achieve 65% recovery of the waste produced in the Eurometropolis, without losing sight of the primary objective of reducing our waste overall (441 kg per inhabitant in 2021), and the blue bin by half (239 kg in 2021)”, writes the agglomeration in a press release.

A concierge near the cathedral

Since the end of October, there is no longer a post office on the place du château in Strasbourg.

Despite the outcry, this historic agency has closed.

But similar services will be offered, from January 3, a few steps away.

A concierge service will open opposite the entrance to the cathedral, on the corner with rue Mercière.

Inside this room, a post office will therefore be accessible, but not only.

Maintenance and repair services (laundry, alterations, shoe repair, car, bicycle, telephone) and contact with home help professionals will also be offered.

“New services will be developed over time, such as well-being, social links and even transport services,” promises the city.

In Germany, things will change too

Crossing the Rhine is a habit for many people from Strasbourg and Alsace.

Question of purchasing power, especially with tobacco and less expensive cleaning products.

Others sometimes see them as less expensive vehicles.

Bad news in this sense, the aid that was granted for the purchase of a plug-in hybrid car will no longer exist in 2023. It will be granted "only for 100% electric vehicles", notes the European Consumer Center ( Cec-Zev).

Its amount will also be reduced from 6,000 to 4,500 euros for a car costing less than 40,000 euros (against up to 7,000 euros of ecological bonus in France).

Another novelty, this time for those who work on the other side of the border and therefore have German health insurance.

“From now on, they will no longer leave the doctor's office with a paper prescription.

It will be directly registered on their “Gesundheitskarte”, their vital card, and can be consulted by the pharmacist to recover the drugs”, writes the Cec-Zev.

You will have to be patient but it will come: the “Deutschlandticket” will change in the spring.

Against 49 euros per month, it will be possible to borrow unlimited regional modes of transport (trains, tram, bus and metro).

And in the summer, a new food label, the “Tierhaltungslabel”, will be compulsory.

This will guarantee respect for animal welfare for food made from unprocessed pork produced in Germany.

And otherwise ?

If the increase in the price of the Navigo pass in Paris is making noise, nothing like this is to be expected in the Alsatian capital.

The Compagnie des transports strasbourgeois (CTS) maintains its rates.

For subscribers of Electricité de Strasbourg (ES), no significant increase is expected either on electricity and gas bills.

The government announced it in September: the tariff shield is extended in 2023.

Finally, 2023 should also see the election of a new president at the head of the Grand-Est region.

Jean Rottner announced his departure last week and several candidates have already spoken.

Unless Alsace once again becomes a region in its own right...

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  • Low Emission Zone (ZFE)

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