Registration for the VII Summit on Regional Governments is now open
From today, registration for the regional event to be held on the occasion of ORU's General Assembly in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Bresil, on the 14th and 15th April 2016 is open. Those interested in attending should register through the portail oru2016assembly.eventbrite.es. Looking forward to seeing you in Rio!
Regional Governments, how can we become more effective?
The State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will host ORU Fogar's Executive Bureau and General Assembly on the 13th and 14th April of the year ahead. On the occasions of such events, the United Regions Organisation is organising in the Guanabara Palace the VII Summit on Regional Governments, an international meeting that will bring together regional stakeholders from...
A year of activity and commitment
2016 has all the makings of a busy and ambitious year for ORU Fogar. Apart from the Executive Bureau, the General Assembly and the VII World Regional Governments Summit that will be held in Rio de Janeiro between 13th and 15th April, the United Regions Organization will have an active role in this year’s most crucial regional and international events, on behalf the regions of the world and with the commitment of government decentralization in mind.
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Chile: between centralism and regionalization
The Republic of Chile, in the south-westernmost tip of America, has traditionally always been unitary, presidentialist and centralised. For over 40 years, our country has been divided up into a total of 15 administrative units known as ‘regions’, plus an additional one, the Región Metropolitana (Metropolitan Region), that represents the central power and concentrates almost half of the country’s total population. These regions are subdivided into 54 provinces and 345 communes.
The territorial debate in Spain
When this newsletter is released, the new Spanish parliament, elected last 20th December, will be in the process of being constituted. It will be hard, or rather extremely hard, for it to form a government. Many political analysts have stated that we are facing a second transition, after the first one that carried the country from Franco’s dictatorship to democracy. The new scenario, with the appearance of left-wing party Podemos and of Ciudadanos, shatters the two-party system…
