The constitutional reform in decentralization of state power
In the article we can see the actual problems of constitutional reforms in decentralization of state power by expanding financial capacity and powers of local and regional government. It is shown that the improvement of economic mechanisms of public administration at the local government needs to optimize the tax and budget policy to increasing the share of local budgets to other levels of government, increasing tax sources of local budgets to ensure the autonomy of municipalities in determining their own public spending and incentives to develop their own revenue base. In addition, improving social and economic mechanisms of municipal government requires local authorities effective action in such key areas as: support for small businesses; stimulating domestic investors and attracting foreign investment; promote the development of enterprises; of market infrastructure; formation of an attractive image of the municipality; comprehensive development of public-private partnerships within individual settlements and so on. Highlights the unreasonableness of amendments and additions to the Constitution of Ukraine to change the government from unitary to federal, in the absence of underlying causes and conditions for political and territorial administrative decentralization of the weakening of central government in the realization of the national constitutional functions, such as security national security, defense, human rights and freedoms of man and citizen, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Ukrainian state and so on. The author believes that the purpose of proper constitutional decentralization is fiscal, organizational and administrative of competence and strengthening local communities and their elected local government, which has found its expression in the implementation of municipal reform on samples of modern European countries and in accordance with European legal standards public governance and local democracy. Particularly relevant implementing European standards for local government legislation and legal practice is in terms of signing Ukraine Association Agreement with the European Union, the ultimate strategic objective to which the regulatory framework defined full accession of Ukraine to the EU - integration association, foundation on the principle of decentralization and maximize the scope of the rights of local communities with the provision of state real opportunity to solve local issues within current legislation.