Decentralization of Governance Conducive to Stability: Habsburg

Decentralization of Governance Conducive to Stability: Habsburg
Eduard Habsburg, a Hungarian diplomat and Hungary's current ambassador to the Holy See, in Washington, on May 4, 2023. Jack Hsu/The Epoch Times
Ella Kietlinska
Jan Jekielek
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When a country’s local government on the lowest level is very strong, and each higher level of governance has less and less power, with the central government being very weak, the country is best suited to become stable and successful, said Eduard Habsburg.

Although monarchy and constitutional republic are diametrically different systems of governance, the United States and the former Austro-Hungarian Empire were both employing the same principle of subsidiarity, Habsburg, a member of the house of Habsburg-Lorraine, the former ruling family of Austria-Hungary, explained.

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