Municipalities do not have functional independence
Ten examples of the central level encroaching on the local.
|2017.10.17
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If this path were to be followed, national obligations would become institutional responsibilities, rather than personal whims becoming national problems.
There is a high risk of municipalities being left without fire brigades in the future.
The unclear division of responsibilities is doing nothing to improve public policies and only serves to invigorate the ‘game’ of blame-shifting for poor — or non-existent — public services.
Bekim Salihu
Bekim Salihu is a policy analyst at GAP Institute and manages the local governance project. He completed his masters in International Politics at the University of Prishtina “Hasan Prishtina.”
DISCLAIMERThe views of the writer do not necessarily reflect the views of Kosovo 2.0.
This story was originally written in Albanian.