{"id":44718,"date":"2014-06-25T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/vers-la-fin-du-mille-feuille-territorial-francais\/"},"modified":"2022-12-28T04:48:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T03:48:17","slug":"vers-la-fin-du-mille-feuille-territorial-francais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/vers-la-fin-du-mille-feuille-territorial-francais\/","title":{"rendered":"An End to France\u2019s Territorial Layer-Cake?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='post-container'>Shortly after forming his government, the French Prime Minister Manuel Valls caused something of a stir among French local and regional authorities by announcing, last April, that the number of French regions would be halved in 2017 and by proposing to abolish <em>d\u00e9partements<\/em> by 2021. Though there is much to be said for this, given France\u2019s territorial complexity, the experience of previous attempts at reform and the way a number of local politicians tend to cling to their powers mean that this new initiative \u2013officially launched in June\u2013 is not certain to come to fruition.\n\nHowever, as Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Drevet shows here, comparing the kinds of territorial division prevailing in France with those in other European countries where municipalities, counties\/provinces and regions are concerned, it would be a logical development enabling the country to resemble its European partners more closely in terms of territorial organization. Moreover, such a reform would give scope for some substantial savings \u2013a point not to be ignored in such delicate times for the public finances, even if we should be careful not to overestimate these, as Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Drevet reminds us in the conclusion to his column.<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after forming his government, the French Prime Minister Manuel Valls caused something of a stir among French local and regional authorities by announcing, last April, that the number of French regions would be halved in 2017 and by proposing to abolish d\u00e9partements by 2021. Though there is much to be said for this, given &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/vers-la-fin-du-mille-feuille-territorial-francais\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,1324],"tags":[133,212],"keyword":[841,859,1142,1097],"class_list":["post-44718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronique-europeenne","category-revue-futuribles","tag-economie-et-emploi-en","tag-societe-en","keyword-union-europeenne-en","keyword-france-en","keyword-local-government-en","keyword-amenagement-du-territoire-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44718"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60060,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44718\/revisions\/60060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44718"},{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=44718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}