La relance du «gouvernement métropolitain» en Europe : le prototype de Stuttgart

Abstract

Relaunching Metropolitan Government in Europe : the Stuttgart Prototype The Act of 7 February 1994 on "the reinforcement of cooperation in the Stuttgart region" has established a new institution for the management of local affairs : the "regional Stuttgart community" which groups 179 municipalities around. The originality of this institution lies as well in the historical, social, economic and political conditions of the town as in its structures -direct election, new geographical and material competences -and in the legal and financial means it can use to ensure its mission of regional planing. This institution appears as a compromise between different schools of local management. Only experience will show it is an example, and in the long range, a clear evidence of the evolution European countries are undergoing, or if it remains an exception linked to Stuttgart’s particular context.