Jerinić, Jelena (2024) Regional Self-Government in Serbia : At Odds with Reality. In: Regionalism and regional self-government in South-East Europe / editor Vedran Đulabić. European Union and its Neighbours in a Globalized World, 14 (14). Springer, Cham, pp. 123-141. ISBN 978-3-031-68945-1
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The chapter portrays how the traditionally centrist Serbia, transiting from a unitary state through several forms of federative and confederative structures, back to unitarism, struggled with the idea of regional self-government. It covers constitutional history and normative realities, as well as incentives and disincentives for regionalisation. Under its current constitution, Serbia recognises two autonomous provinces, although only one of them—Vojvodina can be understood as its genuine region. The limited autonomy of Vojvodina is presented through issues of its competence and organisation of provincial bodies, with a particular view to the 2012 and 2013 decisions of the Serbian Constitutional Court on the provincial statute and the law on its competences. Even though statistical regions have been introduced, the country has neglected its regional development policy. On top of that, the capital Belgrade with the population of two million, remains limited to the position of a local government unit. Moreover, regionalisation is largely absent from the public debate as the centralists seem to have prevailed, annulling the fragile consensus reached in 2006, additionally backed up by the constant state of crisis in Serbia in which people tend to seek stability, rather than comprehensive reforms. With that in mind, regionalisation in Serbia has to be viewed in conjunction with a thorough territorial and local government reform. Its basis should be in the preservation and strengthening of Vojvodina’s autonomy and then exploring possible models for regionalisation of the full territory—be it symmetrical or asymmetrical. Bearing in mind the narrow understanding of territorial autonomy brought forward by the Constitutional Court, a solid and explicit basis for reform is needed in the Constitution, including criteria for establishment of new regions, as well as a clearer and wider basis for devolution of competences to regions, and an explicit recognition of the subsidiarity principle in distribution of competences between levels of government.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Additional Information: | COBISS.SR-ID 158299145 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | regionalne samouprave, ustavna istorija, autonomne pokrajine, Ustavni sud, politika regionalnog razvoja, princip supsidijarnosti, Srbija |
| Subjects: | Administrative Law Constitutional Law |
| Depositing User: | Mr Stanko Kovačić |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Dec 2024 16:30 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Dec 2024 16:30 |
| URI: | http://repozitorijum.pravnifakultet.edu.rs/id/eprint/1932 |
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