Building on polish experience of local self-government development in Ukraine as a form of cooperation between countries

Abstract

The article considers some aspects of the Polish experience of reforming local self-government and administrative-territorial organization. The historical reasons for the development of the institute of local self-government in Poland are analyzed, its legal basis, the competence of local self-government bodies is characterized, in particular, the main powers of the commune council and county council are determined. The peculiarities of the administrative-territorial structure of Poland in the aspect of the possibility of borrowing experience of territorial transformations are determined.