Bulletin n. 2/2007
October 2007
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Belloubet-Frier Nicole
    Vers un modèle européen d’administration locale ?
    in Revue française d'administration publique , N. 121-122 ,  2007 ,  5-18
    Building a European model of local administration would seem out of the question, given the very different historical backgrounds of individual states and their particular forms of political and administrative organisation. Nonetheless, one wonders if it might not be possible. Although processes of setting up local autonomy have resulted in marked disparities in the delegation, transfer and devolution of competences, as well as in the organisation of controls, resistance to a single model does not preclude some very real convergences: the emphasis on decentralisation in all European countries including those of the east, supported by the European Council in the aim of ensuring democratic stability, the harmonisation of fundamental competences, the search for ways to find the necessary financial resources, and finally, equalization ensured by a responsible state. These principles of local autonomy could be said to underlie a shared idea for a future European model of local administration, in its first stages of construction.
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