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ERPA REAP EUROPEAN REVIEW OF PUBLIC ACTION ISSUE 1 – MAY 2010 CASE STUDY PUBLIC MANAGEMENT IN EUROPE CAREER EVALUATION STATUTE MOBILITY Interview with Italian Minister of Public Administration and Innovation « European changes » Centre national de la fonction publique territoriale Une expertise formation au service des agents et des collectivités territoriales .fr Former tout au long de la vie Anticiper l’évolution des collectivités territoriales et des agents Dynamiser la carrière des cadres supérieurs cnfpt centre national de la fonction publique territoriale centre www. La formation développe vos talents Summary EUROPA ASSOCIATION Based in : Faculty of Law and Economics in Limoges, 32 Turgot Str, 87031 Limoges Cedex General delegation : 11 Albert-Piche Str, p. 6 64000 Pau European Changes Secretariat-General : 88 Pont Saint-Martia Strl, 87000 Limoges Website : www.europaong.org EDitorial staff anD subscription Tel. +33 5 59 27 46 11 CAREER email : [email protected] EVALUATION EDitor : Robert SAVY, EUROPA president STATUTE EDitorial Staff MOBILITY Editor-in-chief : Giuseppe BETTONI, EUROPA first vice- president Deputy editor-in-chief : Christophe BONNOTTE, EUROPA deputy secretary general, Clotilde DEFFIGIER, , member of EUROPA scientific council Editorial secretariat : Michel SENIMON, EUROPA executive officer Contributors to this issue : Jean-Luc BODIGUEL, first p. 18 vice-president of EUROPA scientific council ; Anne p. 58 AZAM-PRADEILLES, member of EUROPA scientific Public management: council, coordinator of English-speaking experts Sustained performance Leuven: Public action in the in EUROPA network, Bernard PERRIN, , member of heart of Europe EUROPA scientific council Belgium: Christian de VISSCHER, David RENDERS Bulgaria : Antoniy GALABOV Denmark : Naja Vucina PEDERSEN France : Pierre BAUBY, Jean-Luc BODIGUEL, Jean-Luc BOEUF, Christophe CANTON, Claire CORNET, Clotilde DEFFIGIER, Delphine ESPAGNO, Jean-Claude FILLON, Denys LAMARZELLE, Christine LEAL, Hélène E DITORIAL PAULIAT, Nadine POULET GIBOT-LECLERC, Robert SAVY Germany : Ewald EISENBERG ENCOUNTER Greece : Stella KYVELOU 6 / Encounter with Renato BRUNETTA, Italian Minister of Public Administration and Innova- Italy : Renato BRUNETTA, Giuseppe BETTONI, Pietro- tion Luigi MASTROGIUSEPPE, Gennaro TERRACCIANO Ireland : Brid QUINN Netherlands: Jan KENTER, Laurens ZWAAN NEWS Poland : Jacek CZAPUTOWICZ 8 / Administrative organisation Portugal : Vasco Nascimento COSTA 10 / Democracy and participation Romania: Marius PROFIROIU Spain : José Manuel RUANO 12 / Public services Sweden : Kerstin KOLAM 14 / Public management UK : June BURHAM 15 / Sustainable development Ukraine : Anne AZAM-PRADEILLES, Vira NANIVSKA PARTNERS OF THE EUROPEAN REVIEW OF PUBLIC PARTNERSHIP ACTION 16 / Coordination of social security systems in Europe University of Limoges – Observatory of Institutional and Juridical Changes (OMIJ)) President: Helene PAULIAT, Professor in Public Law, University of Limoges, member of the University Institute of France CASE STUDY : Public management in Europe 18 / Public management in Europe: Sustained performance ? Civil Service Mutual Insurance Company (MFP) - 22 / State reform and modernisation of administration European Social Cooperation - Development (CSED) 30 / Public management Correspondent : Christine LEAL 36 / Public officers’ training 44 / Public officers’ career path 50 / Public officers’ remuneration PORTRAIT The opinions expressed in the magazine represent only 58 / Leuven: Public action in the heart of Europe the authors’ position EUROPA ASSOCIATION - ISSUE 1 – MAY 2010 EUROPA ASSOCIATION Presentation of Europa association Set up in 1995 with the support of the vices at symposiums on employment in are aware that Europe is our horizon. Eve- region of Limousin, Europa Association the public sector (2005), or the quality of rything that enables Europeans to learn (Entretiens Universitaires Reguliers pour public action (2004), or public officers’ more about each other, exchange expe- I'Administration en Europe) is a France- retirement (2001). We also touched upon rience, be aware both of the diversity based NGO, which in 2001 obtained a par- broader issues central to the challenges to of their traditions and the unity of their ticipatory status at the Council of Europe. public policies, such as territorial cohesion values is a useful contribution to the Euro- Its major mission is to study, analyse and and public services (1999) or public service pean project. compare the civil services and national or and religions (2007), or public services, local administrations of general interest in competition and regulation (2008). Moreover, because the European Union EU member states. needs public action. All member states In the same vein, EUROPA has lent its have acknowledged that to date there is EUROPA is a permanent network of assistance to the organisation of semi- no alternative to the market economy: it experts. It incorporates public officers, nars or information days in partnership is everywhere, with differences related to practitioners involved either in person with the national teams of its network in national specificity, and recently to the or through their universities, research Spain, Italy, Greece, Poland, Romania… degree of development. However, eve- centres, professional or training bodies It has implemented important study or rywhere there is awareness that democra- with which partnership agreements can research programmes for its public or cy, public freedoms, social and territorial EUROPA ASSOCIATION EUROPA be signed. The network members – cur- private partners, including the Council of cohesion can be put at risk in the absence rently operating in some 20 countries of Europe (Good Practices in Intermunicipal of public action to prevent or curb the 4 the European Union – have learned to Cooperation in Europe – 2007), the Inter- possible negative trends. The European work together as regards public action in ministerial Delegation for Regional Plan- Review of Public Action plays a role in the Europe. Since its establishment, EUROPA’s ning and Competitiveness – DIACT (Public description of how the efficiency of action major partners have been the region of Services – One-Stop Shops in Europe) or and the respect for Europe’s values can be Limousin and the University of Limoges. the National Centre of Territorial Civil Ser- reconciled everywhere. This double patronage shows the atmos- vice – CNFPT (Local Civil Services in Europe phere in which EUROPA operates. Our 2005-2007). ambition is both scientific and mana- Robert SAVY, gement-oriented. We are trying, with In conclusion, in its attempt to stay in EUROPA president, government adviser (H) the austerity of academic reasoning, to contact with the reality of civil service and present an unbiased discussion on the its missions in its partner region of Limou- changes in civil service and public ser- sin, since 2004 EUROPA has been organi- vice, the challenges they face. Meanwhile, sing in Limoges a forum on employment through the information collected on in the public sector, where students meet various national practices, we wish to be decision-makers of the major national helpful to decision-makers in the field of and local public services. Meanwhile, it national public policies, by giving them was the initiator of the establishment of a means of better response. Regional Observatory of Professions and Employment in the Public Sector, an area Michel SENIMON It is mainly through the symposiums of dialogue on good management prac- EUROPA executive officer held in Limoges every year since 1997 – tices, as well as a Regional Observatory whose outcome is published on a regu- of Evaluation of the Performance of the lar basis by university publishing house Public Sector in Limousin. Presses Universitaires de Limoges (PULIM) – that EUROPA contributes to this discus- Therefore, the European Review of sion. The selected topics on which experts Public Action, released by EUROPA, is from many European countries exchange situated in the straight grain of these opinions and experience, have over the concerns. years touched upon very different aspects of public action. We discussed civil ser- First of all, because it is European. We E UuropeanROPEAN REeviewVIEW OofF PUublicBLIC ACctionTION EUROPA ASSOCIATION - ISSUE 1 – MAY 2010 EDITORIAL A new magazine … why ? The “launch” of a new magazine is always tricky, particularly if it is mani- festly ambitious to be European! But still here is the European Review of Public Action – which offers an original perspective compared to its counterparts; it is launched to give a specific meaning to the existence and operations of a network functioning for over 10 years. Following its recognized scientific achievements, mostly in the form of symposiums, university exchanges, Europa Association decided that it is high time to further structure its activity, to prove to be more readable as regards its partners, to offer benefits to the administrative circles with the totality of its experience and reflections. The gradually established network includes universities, civil servants from central or local administrations, elec- ted officials, politicians or high-ranking officials; it was structured around several topics such as public services, civil ITORIAL service, public administration, which justifies the title of this magazine. The first part is devoted to news stories of D the public administration in the EU member states or candidate countries, in the field of local democracy,