REAP ERPA European review on public administration - N°3 - June 2020 The new forms of territorial organisation of the State in Europe European review on public administration - N°3 - june 2020 - N°3 june administration review public European on INTERVIEW with PRESENTATION Pierre-Etienne BISCH of the research group p. 4 PoliTIS ISSN en cours WAMBRECHIES GRAPHIQUE IMPRESSION STUDIO - CNFPT ©19/14172/SA p. 52 Table of contents EUROPA ASSOCIATION Based in: Site des Jacobins - 88 rue du Pont Saint-Martial, 87000 Limoges Site Internet : www.europaong.org p. 4 EDITORIAL STAFF AND SUBSCRIPTION Tél. : +33 6 82 80 21 39 Interview with Courriel : [email protected] Pierre-Etienne BISCH, EDITOR : Hélène PAULIAT, President of EUROPA Regional Prefect (h), member of Conseil d’Etat in extraordinary RÉDACTION Editor-in-Chief: Christophe BONNOTTE, Secretary General duty of EUROPA; Caroline BOYER-CAPELLE, Deputy Secretary Secretary General of the European General of EUROPA Association of State Territorial Représentatives (AERTE) Editorial Secretariat and Reading Committee: Michel SENIMON, EUROPA Delegate General; Christophe BONNOTTE, EUROPA Secretary General; Caroline BOYER- ERPA CAPELLE, EUROPA Deputy Secretary General REAP Contributor to this issue: European review on public administration - N°3 - June 2020 Germany: Margot BONNAFOUS, Training Manager, The new forms Euro-Institut Kehl • Clarisse KAUBER, Head of Studies, Euro- of territorial organisation Institut Kehl • Benedikt FRANZ, Linda WALLBOTT and Heike of the State BOEHLER, Technische Universität Darmstadt in Europe Belgium: Christian DE VISSCHER, Professor, Catholic University of Louvain • Jean-François HUSSON, • 2020 - N°3 june administration review public European on Centre for Research in Public Action, Integration and Governance, Catholic University of Louvain and University of Liège INTERVIEW with PRESENTATION Pierre-Etienne BISCH of the research group Spain: • José M. RUANO DE LA FUENTE, Professor of p. 4 PoliTIS Administrative Sciences at the Faculty of Political Science, ISSN en cours WAMBRECHIES GRAPHIQUE IMPRESSION - CNFPT STUDIO ©19/14172/SA p. 52 p. 52 Complutense University of Madrid Presentation of the France : • Anne AZAM-PRADEILLES, International Expert in Governance and State Reform, Civil Administrator HC p. 23 research group PoliTIS - (Hon), Deputy Vice-President for Coordination of the Complutense University of EUROPA Network • Pierre-Etienne BISCH, Regional Prefect The new forms of (h), Member of the Council of State in extraordinary service territorial organisation Madrid • Hélène PAULIAT, Professor of Public Law, President of EUROPA • Nadine POULET-GIBOT-LECLERC, Senior Lecturer of the State in Europe at the University of Limoges Greece: • Dr Stella KYVELOU, Architect Engineer, Associate Professor, University of Political and Social Sciences Panteion of Athens Hungary: Viktória LINDER, Senior Lecturer, National University of Public Service of Budapest Irland: • Dr. Bríd QUINN, Senior Lecturer at the University EUROPA GOVERNANCE of Limerick Italy: Giuseppe BETTONI, Professor at the University of EDITORIAL Rome "Tor Vergata" Lithuania: • Dr. Virgis VALENTINAVIČIUS, Associated ENCOUNTER Professor, Mykolas Romeris University of Vilnius 4/ Interview with Pierre-Etienne BISCH, Regional Prefect (h), member of Conseil Luxemburg: • Franz CLEMENT, PhD in sociology, CEPS/ INSTEAD d’Etat in extraordinary duty Netherlands: • Dr. Laurens J. 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ISSN : in progress EUROPEAN REVIEW ON PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION - N°3 - JUNE 2020 ERPA issue 3 - EUROPA governance Michel SENIMON GENERAL DELEGATE OF EUROPA At national level, the lasting partnership it has built since its establishment with the National Centre for Territorial Public Function (CNFPT) has enabled it to create the European Review of Public Action (ERPA), a real showcase of its comparative analysis in the field of public action available on the pages of its 3rd issue. Hélène PAULIAT This also allows it to put forward its training PRESIDENT OF EUROPA offer and enrich its e-resources policy in the European field. In 2020, EUROPA has continued, as always, to adapt its governance and its modes of For its part, the partnership agreement That is why, in a difficult international intervention to international, national and currently being developed with the National context, we state and constantly repeat regional contexts in which it has been Union of Directors General of Local that in the face of threats and difficulties, developing for almost 25 years now, in a Governments (SNDGCT) reinforces the the only solution is Europe: bid to promote public action across Europe. involvement of our NGO alongside French local authorities and their EPCI, because of • because the underlying values are the At international level, as a member of the the European perspective pertaining to best and the sole response to the Conference of INGOs of the Council of their public policies. authoritarian slippage of certain political ASSOCIATION EUROPA ASSOCIATION Europe with a consultative status, after a regimes whose victims are always the long period of cooperation, it has Wishing to extend its action in the field of most fragile; established strong ties of trust with various applied research, EUROPA is intensifying its bodies of this international organisation. contacts with the economic and unionist Thus the head of the German team of our world, with the stated aim of creating a • because faced with the hegemonic network, who is our permanent Chair of Excellence with the partnership of aspirations of the great international correspondent at this institution, also sits the Foundation of the University of Limoges. powers, whose raison d'etat is the only on our behalf in the Conference of INGOs guide to their action, there must be a 2 migration task force. At regional and local level, EUROPA has strong political organisation behind which gained its place in the new ecosystem the European peoples affirm the relevance EUROPA has also participated for three emerging from the merger of regions and of our political and social model; years in the work of the European the creation of the new Aquitaine area. Parliament's Common Goods and Public Thus, with the renewed support of the • because we owe to Europe the longest Services Intergroup, where it now plays a region which remains our main partner, we period of peace among European nations real think-tank role. have also asserted our territorial foothold given its state of play: the European in Limousin, thanks to the trust and fabric, a union of destinies. In addition, EUROPA is developing successful assistance provided not only by the cooperation with the European Association Limoges-Métropole agglomeration That is why, as it has been doing for the of State Territorial Representatives (EASTR), authority, the City of Limoges and the past 25 years, EUROPA use its energy, its as well as the Network of Institutes and University of Limoges, but also by the time, the enthusiasm of its team and its Schools of Public Administration in Central economic and social fabric of our territory. network to defend a positive and and Eastern Europe (NISPACEE) and the constructive concept of Europe and to show Federation of European Union Local Recently, EUROPA has joined the Regional the importance of its action to guarantee Authority Chief Executive Officers (UDiTE). Research Network Europe, Law and Public a model seeking to reconcile economic Action, which the New Aquitaine Region prosperity, social justice and political Structured recently around a Conference calls for and whose development it wishes democracy. of Vice-Presidents, EUROPA also consolidates to support. its own network of European experts, whereby it organises international seminars But governance issues are nothing without and workshops and responds to calls for what lies in the meaning and at the heart tenders and/or calls for projects at of the action that EUROPA has been European and national level. conducting for many years. b a EUROPEAN REVIEW ON PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION EUROPEAN REVIEW ON PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION - N°3 - JUNE 2020 ERPA issue 3 - EUROPA governance