Decentralization
Lee receives briefing on balanced regional development
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President Lee Jae Myung received a policy briefing on balanced regional development on Monday, December 8, stressing it as key to sustainable growth. The presidential committee presented a customized strategy to ease concentration in the Seoul metropolitan area and foster new growth drivers nationwide. The plan includes five regional hubs and three special self-governing provinces.
Minister Françoise Gatel outlined on Tuesday, December 9, the details of a major decree aimed at reducing excessive norms burdening local authorities. Announced by Sébastien Lecornu, the text seeks to ease the administrative load on elected officials to boost territorial action. It follows a simplification initiative launched earlier in the year.
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French mayors, seen as the heart-elected officials of the French, express growing feelings of powerlessness at their annual congress in Paris. From November 17 to 20, 2025, around 12,000 delegates gather to discuss challenges from centralization and the rise of intercommunal structures. Ahead of the 2026 municipal elections, they denounce a dispossession of their local powers.