Bulletin n. 1/2016
June 2016
INDICE
  • 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
    • Marcou Gérard
    L’État, la décentralisation et les régions
    in Revue française d'administration publique , 2015/4 (N° 156) ,  2015 ,  887-906
    The State, Decentralisation and the Regions Legislation passed since 2013 has yet again revived the process of local government reform. Groupings of local authorities will be reformed, with the creation of 14 metropolitan areas, including Le Grand Paris. In line with the 2010 Act, intercommunalities will become more commonplace, although they will have a much higher minimum population. However, the reform of intermediate levels of government is inconsistent. First the legitimacy of the department councils was renewed in 2013. Then it was announced that they would be abolished, but the creation of bigger regions finally justified maintaining them. The NOTRe Act on the Republic’s new territorial organisation allowed them to keep powers that it had been expected would be transferred to the regions. The general clause on departments’ and regions’ competences was initially abolished by the 2010 Act, then it was reintroduced by the Act of 27 January 2014, and now it been removed again by the Act of 7 August 2015. Ultimately the regionalist thrust of the second wave of reforms has not been kept up. An opportunity to update the French system has thus arisen, in which the key players will be the state (through the prefects) and communes (through the intercommunalities).
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