Administracja polskich gmin wobec aktualnych wyzwań europeizacji i modernizacji

Administration of Polish Communes and the Current Challenges of Europeanisation and ModernisationIn Polish local government units the process of Europeisation has entailed the modernisation of local communities. In local Poland, Europeisation includes such areas of cooperation with the EU as: partner towns, trans-borderrelations (Euroregions), use of EU funds, and the activation o communities at the time of the EU accession referendum campaign (2003). Most of those processes have also entailed modernisation efforts. This is true not just for economic but also social and political issues. The mod- ern face of the Polish local administration in recent years also means new and young corps of local-government staff who are highly qualified and have a vision of their own professional development. The focal point of the Europeaisation and modernisation processes is Uniejów, which over the last few years has become the best developing Polish commune. The article attempts at showing to what an extent major phenomena in economics and regional policy may change the way small communities function as well as how much depends on efficient public governance