MULTI LEVEL GOVERNANCE

Multi Level Governance

Multi Level Governance

Introduction

Member States of the Union political traditions and very different models of governance. The Germanic model is based on subsidiary and on a federal model in which Landers jealously guard what the federal government does not come encroach on their prerogatives. According to the French model, traditionally Jacobin, this is the Republic, one and indivisible, that premium, even though a vast decentralization movement is committed from the 70s. As for the Spanish model, different levels of autonomy exist depending on the history and cultural specificities. Despite these contrasts, we can observe that all these plans have a principle in common: they believe that each society issue can be treated at a single level. Consequently, they allocate exclusive responsibilities to different levels of governance and suspect each other of wanting to reduce power in its own territory.

Discussion

The functioning of the European Union based on the same assumptions. Yet they are less and less to reality. When the President of the European Commission, Romano Prodi, launched in 2000 the White Paper on Governance, Jean Monnet chairs all stressed the unsuitability of the model. Member States were particularly anxious to regain power against the growing influence of the European Commission. Just as they fought to have only weak and Commission Presidents to give prominence to the Council of Heads of States on the Commission and the Parliament, they wished to reaffirm the idea that the skills of Commission could not be exercised on a limited list of topics and closed.

The "whole market" is in no way the historical purpose of the European Union, then this is the story of European governance which has deported from Europe to a market fundamentalism.

The inadequacy of thinking on governance to the reality of European society has a paradoxical effect: giving ...