{"id":22297,"date":"2015-08-03T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T11:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=22297"},"modified":"2017-10-23T16:35:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T14:35:12","slug":"territorial-reform-in-france-la-reforme-terrritoriale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/territorial-reform-in-france-la-reforme-terrritoriale\/","title":{"rendered":"Territorial Reform in France: La r\u00e9forme terrritoriale"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last summer, my mother-in-law and I brought my son to the store\u00a0Nature et D\u00e9couvertes <\/em>in Paris\u00a0to find a little toy to keep him occupied on the plane ride home. We didn’t find the perfect toy to keep a 1-year-old happy on an eight hour flight (I’m not sure that it exists!), but we did find something else. It was a magnetic puzzle map of France, made up of 101 puzzle pieces signifying its 101\u00a0departments (96 being in metropolitan France, and the other five being overseas) and 22\u00a0regions<\/em>. Each puzzle piece is decorated with a cartoon of what that area is known for. We fell in love with it instantly, and I imagined hanging it up on my son’s wall to teach him about where his father came from and where his grandparents live.<\/p>\n

The salesperson who was helping us told us the puzzle was special and could become a collector’s item because of the current r\u00e9forme territoriale<\/em>. As of 2016, France’s administrative regions<\/em>\u00a0(and potentially its\u00a0d\u00e9partements<\/em>)\u00a0will change and no longer look the same. The map that I bought last year will become\u00a0obsolete.<\/p>\n

France is divided up into separate levels of administrative territories (from largest to smallest): regions, d\u00e9partements, arrondissements, cantons, and communes. Today France has 272regions, including \u00cele-de-France, Languedoc-Roussillon, Lorraine, Alsace, Bretagne, Pays de la Loire,\u00a0<\/em>among others. As of 2016, these 22 familiar regions will be\u00a0redrawn into 13 regions. Of course, these 13 regions will be much larger than the previous ones and will include quite a bit of reorganization. With\u00a0great organization comes great\u00a0discord, and\u00a0political parties fear\u00a0that they will be misrepresented in the redrawing of France’s regions.<\/p>\n

France’s bicameral Parliament\u00a0passed the law allowing these new 13 regions in December, but there is still a lot of decisions to be made. Just today, the French government announced the list of new regional capitals, however the definite details of\u00a0these 13 regions have not yet been decided. See the article in LeParisien.fr here.<\/a><\/p>\n

So, why did the French government decide to begin la nouvelle r\u00e9forme territoriale<\/em>? For an obvious reason: saving costs, as well as to reduce bureaucracy. But on top of electoral ramifications, the French government must now decide what will happen to public regional employees who may, otherwise, lose their jobs.<\/p>\n

To complicate matters further, a law called le droit d’option\u00a0<\/em>stipulates that, from 2016-2019, any d\u00e9partement\u00a0<\/i>that does not like its new\u00a0region\u00a0<\/em>can choose to switch to a separate, nearby region. This means that we may not see the finalized administrative territories of\u00a0France until at least 2019. Until then, drawing any\u00a0map of France may be a very difficult, if not impossible, task.<\/p>\n

For more information about the history of\u00a0la r\u00e9forme territoriale,\u00a0<\/em>see this article<\/a> at LeParisien.fr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

Last summer, my mother-in-law and I brought my son to the store\u00a0Nature et D\u00e9couvertes in Paris\u00a0to find a little toy to keep him occupied on the plane ride home. We didn’t find the perfect toy to keep a 1-year-old happy on an eight hour flight (I’m not sure that it exists!), but we did find…<\/p>\n

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