Decentralisation et collectivités territoriales en Lituanie
LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Administracinė teritorinė reforma; Apskritis; Autonomija; Decentralizacija; Lenkija (Lenkijos karalystė. Kingdom of Poland. Poland); Reformos; Regionas; Savivalda; Sovietinis; Autonomy; Country; Decentralization; Local governance; Reforms; Region; Self-government; Soviet; Territorial administrative reform.
ENSince its restored political independence, Lithuania has launched a set of reforms for changing the country's political, socioeconomic, institutional and territorial models. Reforms have not advanced at the same pace in all fields however. In particular, institutional and territorial reforms are lagging far behind. A lack of experience with autonomy for local authorities is linked to Lithuania's geopolitical position between central Europe (particular Poland) and Russia, which used to impose their own institutions and division into territorial units. The slow pace of reforms since 1989 has an impact on regional development, especially in rural areas, and on socioeconomic differences between regions. Regional and local development is blocked owing to insufficient decentralization and an inadequate managerial autonomy for local authorities. Institutions at the regional and local levels are also wanting. Despite the change of system, new arrangements are implemented within territorial units inherited from the Soviet era. The institutional and territorial model conveyed by democratization and decentralization has not yet been put into practice. [Text from author]
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