Contenu du sommaire : Les collectivités locales dans l'Europe des douze : une puissance économique et financière ?

Les collectivités locales dans l'Europe des douze : une puissance économique et financière ?

• Introduction. La communauté européennes et les collectivités locales : une double dialectique complexe - p. 13 pages
  European Community and Territorial Authorities : A Complex Double Dialectic. There is a double dialectic between the EEC and local authorities. There is an economic and financial dialectic : within the extended European market, the time is ripe for the development of local intervention. This will be, however, subject to community law under State supervision. There is also an institutional and political dialectic : the subsidiarity principle and liberalism result in a doser involvement of local authorities in the decision-making process. The application of community law, however, presupposes that the member States remain the major partners of EEC institutions. Only with the involvement of local authorities from the outset in the formulation and implementation of community law will it be possible to overcome these tensions.

• Études comparatives

  • Les finances locales - Lucien H. Sergent p. 10 pages
    Local Finance. Local financing Systems vary considerably in western Europe. In particular, State allocation of resources from local taxes and receipts to local authorities is very uneven. However, even if, in most countries a priori supervision has disappeared, there is a widespread trend towards increasing the means of controlling local finances. With 1993 in site, this trend could be reinforced, leading central governments to reduce the financial autonomy of local authorities.
  • L'interventionnisme économique des collectivités territoriales - Jean-Claude Némery p. 10 pages
    Economic Intervention of Local Authorities. The economic intervention of local authorities in Europe does not date from the creation of the EEC. It has been developing from the beginning of the century, despite the limitations imposed by the States in the name of free enterprise. Today, an extensive notion of intervention prevails. The local authorities of each European country use the same range of intervention procedures, albeit with variations with regard to the importance granted to particular processes, jurisdictional distribution between levels of local authority and the degree of openness surrounding these processes.
  • Les modes de gestion des grands services publics locaux - Yves Luchaire p. 14 pages
    Local Public Services Management. If the jurisdictions of territorial authorities vary according to country in the EEC, their modes of intervention fall into the same categories. Everywhere, direct management of local public services is losing ground to delegated management : granting concessions and resorting to municipal or private companies. Mixed economy firms are becoming increasingly frequent. Such diversification, resulting from an increase in tasks devolving on local authorities, derogates from administrative law but serves to homogenize solutions adopted by the different countries.
  • Les collectivités locales et le secteur bancaire - Charles Cornut p. 12 pages
    Relations between Local Authorities and the Banking Sector. Relations between local authorities and banks in Europe can be described as greatly diversified, in terms of freedom of borrowing, financial market access conditions, and cash management. Overall, however, the role of banks has increased during the past ten years. This development has resulted in some abuse. Clear rules, stipulating the responsibilities of authorities and the measures to be applied in case of default, are even more necessary for, with the creation of Europe, the financial freedom of local authorities must necessarily increase.
  • Le partage entre administrations centrales et locales : une mesure statistique délicate. Tableaux commentés de l'Office statistique des Communautés européennes - Alain Chantraine, François de Geuser p. 7 pages
• Conclusion. L'Europe : une chance pour les collectivités locales ? - Hubert Haenel p. 4 pages
  Europe : an Opportunity for Local Authorities ? On the institutional, judicial and decision-making levels, the European edifice has largely ignored local authorities. These have, however, entered into increased cooperation and competition within European context. This development requires the appropriate instruments for real dialogue between the Community, the State and local authorities.
• Questionnaire sur les capacités économiques et financières des collectivités territoriales - Jacques Biancarelli p. 2 pages

• Réponses par pays

  • Allemagne - Dieter Sauberzweig p. 4 pages
  • Le cas du Land de Schleswig-Holstein - Albert von Mutius p. 9 pages
  • Belgique - Diane Déom p. 12 pages
  • Danemark - Emil Le Maire p. 4 pages
  • Espagne - Pilar Fabregat Romero p. 9 pages
  • France - Pierre-René Lemas p. 11 pages
  • Grèce - Nicos Tatsos p. 5 pages
  • Irlande - Sean O'Riordain p. 10 pages
  • Italie - Enrico Buglione, George France p. 5 pages
  • Luxembourg - Jean-Mathias Goerens p. 6 pages
  • Pays-Bas - Jan F. Schrijver p. 6 pages
  • Portugal - Jorge M. Pedroso de Almeida p. 8 pages
  • Royaume-Uni - Alan Norton p. 9 pages