Progress in Administrative Decentralisation in Transformation Countries – a Comparative Survey*
Journal: Hrvatski geografski glasnik/Croatian Geographical Bulletin
Year: 2011

Decentralisation has an important meaning in the context of European integration, since a Europe composed of subsidiary spatial units is to be constructed and a "Europe of regions" is on the agenda of many political discussions. From the early 1990s, the European Communities (EC), later the European Union (EU), promoted the idea of administrative decentralisation also in transformation countries. For EU accession, decentralisation was made one of the prerequisites. But it met centralistic tradit