Control of multibillion-euro budgets and the votes of millions of residents will give the leaders of France’s 13 redrawn regions meaningful influenceThe councils that run continental France’s 13 “super-regions”,formed last year from the preceding 22 regions in an attempt to crop bureaucracy and costs, cannot pass their own laws and so wield little serious political power.
But they dispose of sizeable budgets – the largest, and Île-de-France,had €4.9bn (3.5bn) to spend this year – and the decisions they make can own a genuine impact on the daily lives of millions of people.[br]Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com