The public sector of selected European capitals: The situation in Berlin, London, Paris, Vienna and Rome compared By Marian Krüger Published by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin
[email protected] rls The public sector of selected European capitals: The situation in Berlin, London, Paris, Vienna and Rome compared By Marian Krüger Table of contents Introduction City files Overview concerning the general conditions and the points of emphasis of the study I-) Berlin: Red-red rehabilitation brigade at work 1) Origin and development of the political system of the city of Berlin, social and economic conditions 2) Contract basis: Budgetary calamity – Political relationships of forces and government goals 3) Budgetary policy – to rehabilitate and to shape! 4) Public service and public sector II-) London: No return to Old Labour 1) Origin and development of the political system of the city of London, general social and economic conditions 2) Political relationships of forces and political agenda starting in 2000 3) Key budgetary data 4) Maggie Thatcher’s legacy: Public service and public sector III-) Paris: A policy of social urban development and of extending the public sector 1) Origins and development of the political system of the city of Paris, general social and economic development 2) Political relationships of forces, the agenda of the new left government 3) Budgetary policy 4) Public service and public sector à la française IV-) Vienna: Continuities and changes of a social-democratic model city 1) Origins and development of