Management of Local and Regional Development

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Author: Doina POPESCU

Published in: Vol:9 No.5 / 2008

      The paper presents three regional models for E.U. countries: cultural, political and administrative, and economical one. The paper, also, treats the implication of the E.U. regions in the decision process inside the Community and presents the importance of the concept �Europe of the regions� who combines the elements of economic and administrative efficiency with the principle of democracy and with the need of placing first the citizens� wishes.

      The inhabitants of a local community are able, to the utmost extent, to achieve the civic education, to look together after the public property, to be aware day by day that everybody�s good depends on the good of the whole community, to understand that they live within a society and that life within a group or a community require solidarity, reciprocity, devotion and even sacrifice.

Pages: 146 - 153