Classification paragraph. By Iuliia Gorodyska

Classification paragraph. By Iuliia Gorodyska

Subsidiarity levels 

           Subsidiarity is a principle that is broadly concerned with the limits of the right and duty of the public authority to intervene in social and economic affairs (1). In member states of the European Union, this tenet is invoked to argue the the public affairs can be solved on three main levels: the European Union level, the national, or state level, and the local, or communal level. The European Union level competencies are the issues of common policies of member states, such as economic, fiscal, or energy policies, each of which must be coordinated in the central European authority. On the national level central governments of the states decide upon affairs that concern, for instance, taxation, military, or medicine. Finally, the rights and duties of local authorities include issues regarding, for example, choice of places to host a city celebration, cleaning of city streets or maintaining of parks. So, the idea of subsidiarity suggest that the problems can effectively be solved only at the possibly lowest level.

      1. New Catholic Encyclopedia. Access on January 24, 2013. 

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