Bulletin n. 1/2016
June 2016
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
  • Pontier Jean‑Marie
    Quelles compétences pour quelles communes ?
    in Revue française d'administration publique , 2015/4 (N° 156) ,  2015 ,  989 -1004
    Which Competences Should Different Communes Have? There are very many French communes, they are very old, and local people are greatly attached to them. However, they are currently going through all sorts of different changes, which entail and require extensive reforms. Communes still retain their ‘general competence’ (while that of the departments and the regions has been abolished). However, the real situation increasingly differs from the traditional theoretical framework: intercommunality is being developed, and its different forms are increasingly prevailing upon communes, whose competences are increasingly being transferred to intercommunal cooperation agencies, which progressively integrate their members over time. In parallel, differences between communes are growing as they exercise different general interest functions requiring increasingly extensive and complex cooperation with other entities, including the state. However, these changes have not yet led to an overhaul of communes.
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