Inter-municipal cooperation: World realities and Romanian strategies

Abstract

Our work aims to reveal those aspects of importance to the problem of inter-municipal cooperation, looking in particular to world realities and Romanian strategies. We will examine to what extent the Romanian current legislation supports the inter-municipal cooperation, we will also present the results of prior surveys of the representations of inter-communal cooperation as a form of inter-municipal cooperation, surveys which we undertook in recent years. Looking into the future of inter-municipal cooperation in Romania, we will describe the various development strategies drafted by the Romanian administration and look at how the concept of inter-municipal cooperation has been included into the strategic policy. The conclusions of this study try to serve the effort of answering the pivotal question: "Inter-municipal cooperation or amalgamation in Romania?"