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This picture proves that hundreds of municipalities in Croatia are completely meaningless
Many have realized these days that we have too many local government units, after the ban on moving outside the place of residence was introduced, and it became clear to them that they could not have a gas station or a shop within a kilometer away because it was in another municipality.
Little Croatia has 576 local and regional self-government units
According to the data from the web pages of the Ministry of Administration, Croatia has 555 local self-government units - 428 municipalities and 127 cities and 20 regional self-government units or counties. The City of Zagreb as the capital has a special status of the city and the county, so that in the Republic of Croatia there are 576 units of local and regional self-government.
City and municipality in the same building
In addition to the passes you need to get to the store, how things work in practice is illustrated by the photo attached to this article. This building is the municipality of Dugo Selo, but the municipality of Brckovljani "lives" in it.
To the left is the entrance to the municipality of Brckovljani, and this is the entrance to the town of Dugo Selo. If they are not working from home, Brckovljani municipality employees probably need a pass to come to work in Dugo Selo.
The town of Dugo Selo has a population of about 17,500. Municipality of Brckovljani has about 6800 inhabitants. Most of the employed population of this city and municipality work in neighboring Zagreb, and by the second half of the 1990s they were also connected by ZET urban transport.
Economic Institute Survey: 250 municipalities and 77 cities need to be abolished
A study by the Economic Institute several years ago showed that 250 municipalities and 77 cities should be abolished, and the criterion was that they could not function without state aid.
Also, more than half of Croatian municipalities and cities spend 50 percent of their budget on salaries, which means that their main function is to hire local employees, not to provide services to citizens.
Some local units receive as much as 30 to 90 percent of the budget from the state, that is, from taxpayers' pockets.
Miniature cities and municipalities
Croatian municipalities and cities are small in number and with no average city of Zagreb having 6300 inhabitants. Less than 2000 inhabitants live in more than a third of the total number of municipalities, and as many as 30 municipalities have less than 1000 inhabitants.
Although experts have been proposing to reduce the number of local governments for years, the policy has persistently avoided such reform, as a large network of municipalities, cities and counties has been useful to them in attracting party members.
Prof. Koprić: The number of local government units could be reduced to 120
Prof. dr. sc. Ivan Koprić, from the Faculty of Law in Zagreb, states in his scientific article "Why and what reform of local and regional self - government in Croatia" that the number of local government units could be reduced to 120.
"Studies by our demographers and geographers show that in addition to the four regional urban centers, Croatia has about 120 smaller urban centers, some of which are micro-regional and most of them local only. the number from 556 was reduced to about 120, "said Koprić
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