Polish PM Donald Tusk is to present principles of the planned administrative reform in Poland at the session of the Joint Central-Local Government Commission, today.
The changes, prepared within last few months at the Commission’s forum, provide for increasing the powers of local government. The reform is to consist of several segments, including decentralization, transferring greater responsibilities to local governments and sorting out relations between central and regional administration.
The reform is also to create 12 metropolitan areas in Poland, which are to be a form of co-operation between particular local governments.
Yesterday, former PM Jaroslaw Kaczynski criticised the governmental plan of strengthening local governments in Poland saying that it is likely to cause a decrease of social control and weaken the state apparatus. (jm)