Major problems of administrative regionalisation and decentralisation in Central and Southeast Europe

Abstract

The European Union (EU) promotes within its own member states decentralisation and regionalisation in the administrative sense. This survey is presented in more detail for the countries of Central Europe and just as a summary for the other countries. Driving forces for decentralisation in general and administrative regionalisation in particular are roughly quoted iii the sequence of their importance at the average of the countries investigated. Regional disparities have always been more distinct in the eastern parts of Europe than in the West. The paper discusses also the concrete administrative structure of selected countries: Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia