20.500.12556/DKUM-66877 Inter-municipal cooperation challenges in Europe and in Slovenia The financial crisis has once again brought up the question of the "perfect size" of local governments and revealed a new dimension of the eternal question of financing self-governing local communities. The paper presents a comparative overview of efforts to determine the "perfect size" of municipalities and recent reforms in different countries aimed at enabling municipalities to ensure both local-level democracy and identity, and economic efficiency in the delivery of public services. One of the most popular ways for achieving this goal is to promote various forms of inter-municipal cooperation. Some forms of inter-municipal cooperation already exist in Slovenia; a considerable breakthrough in this regard occurred in 2007, but such an approach would have been possible much earlier. Analyses show that this change is due to changes in the rules regarding co-financing. Despite the fact that neither literature nor politics in Slovenia sees inter-municipal cooperation as an alternative to merging municipalities, experiences show that practice will proceed in this direction. municipalities inter-municipalk cooperation Slovenia European Union občine medobčinsko sodelovanje Slovenija Evropska unija true true true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Znanstveno delo 2017-07-14 11:02:00 2017-07-14 11:02:56 2022-08-01 13:18:01 2019-07-11 16:01:42 2015 0 0 str. 185-200 št. 45 Letn. 11 Jun. 2015 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 1842-2845 352:061.1EU(497.4) 2605230 4598702 1842-2845 URN:SI:UM:DK:0LGEQ4CJ Transylvanian_Review_of_Administrative_Sciences_2015_Rakar,_Ticar,_Klun_Inter-Municipal_Cooperation_Challenges_in_Europe_and_in_Slovenia.pdf Transylvanian_Review_of_Administrative_Sciences_2015_Rakar,_Ticar,_Klun_Inter-Municipal_Cooperation_Challenges_in_Europe_and_in_Slovenia.pdf 1 5C8FD0BE894B4DF18EF9605029696A66 1c6e0466c09676e01ae9df6a511caa4397fd141e50b280eaa3b69b46206f0b55 6ba177a0-7c0e-11eb-bb7a-00155d0001ca 20.500.12556/dkum/aac37828-8657-42c0-9d64-651fb1b26f41 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=114220 http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/445 1 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=114219 Fakulteta za varnostne vede 0 0 0