Report: Big differences in adminstrative structures in different European countries
20.9.2016
12.16
A study published on Tuesday 20 September shows that Finland is closely linked to the administrative culture that prevails in the Nordic countries. At the same time, though, Finland differs from the Nordic countries in some respects. In Finland, instituting changes in the structure of state adminstration is more complicated than in the rest of the Nordic countries.
State agencies in Finland and Sweden are more autonomous relative to the ministry under whose mandate they operate than is the case in Denmark and Norway. As in Finland, the range of organisational structures of the agencies in the countries studied was wide. Agencies are set up at different times for different purposes.