Abstract
Local administrations budgets represented 26% of GDP of the European Union in 2005. Despite this fiscal relevance, the heterogeneity of national legal frameworks has prevented these organizations from coordinating their respective interventions. Nevertheless, a generalized devolution process has gone hand in hand with the supranational integration dynamic, and local governance does now appear as a trend that supposedly favor both and efficiency. Still, the great inequalities among these administrations must be addressed to promote a sound local organization of the Union.
