This was said by EU Ambassador Jan Tombinski, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
“EU developed a program to support self-government in Ukraine, the funds, amounting to EUR 97 mln, on which were allocated jointly with the European Commission, Germany and Poland,” – said Tombinski during the presentation of “Mayors’ School” in Kyiv.
According to him, this program will be launched for supporting the fund of regional development and territorial communities.
The ambassador informed that decentralization is one of the elements of overcoming drawbacks of centralized management, existing in the country.
“In my opinion, this already works – after all my trips to different regions and cities of Ukraine we can speak of the success of this program”, - the ambassador said.
