The major challenge for modern government lies in making the most of citizens contribution to achieve a self-sustainable development. What is the key to success? Voting citizens acknowledge a noticeable trend followed by modern nations: the principle of subsidiarity. This states that matters ought to be handled by the smallest (or the lowest) competent authority. This principle forces political decision making into local and regional self government and participatory democracy.

New business objectives

As the globalisation of world economy takes shape, local and regional governments are faced with challenging objectives, namely to keep unemployment levels from rising, to address environment problems, and to create equal opportunities for all in the modern infrastructures of an information society. Such complex problems require enormous amounts of resources to be successfully dealt with. The solution is to enhance collaboration with neighbouring governing structures and to exploit the full extend of the network concept, both at local, regional and national level.