Razumkov Centre Research Fellow on Legal Issues, retired Judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine Petro Stetsiuk took part in the international scientific conference "Administrative Capability (government and self-government) of EU Member States and Candidates for EU Membership" in Kraków on 20–21.04.2023.
The event was organized by the Jagiellonian University (Kraków, Poland) in cooperation with the National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", the National University "Lviv Polytechnic" and the Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas (Institute of Humanities and Public Administration).
The conference was attended by well-known legal scholars, practitioners of state authorities and local self-government bodies, politicians and public figures from Warsaw, Wrocław, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, Kraków, Łódź, Lublin, Lutsk, Lviv, Odesa, Toruń, Uzhhorod, Chernivtsi, Kherson and other Polish and Ukrainian cities. They focused, in particular, the issues of a new vision/understanding of the common European space as determinants of a new paradigm of the administrative capability of the state, the place and role in these processes of local self-government bodies and officials, local state executive bodies, etc. Particular attention in the scientific discussions was devoted to the peculiarities of Ukraine's full membership in the EU, harmonisation of its legislation and organization of local public authorities to the standards and practices of the European Union. According to P. Stetsiuk, one of the primary tasks of Ukraine after the end of the Russian-Ukrainian war will be the decentralization of state power. At the same time, according to the expert, it will be extremely important not only to change power (redistribute powers) between different "levels" of local public authorities but also to actually implement the idea of "good government" (good to an ordinary person, accountable to the local community, responsible for the state and future of the town, district, region, etc.).
