Perhaps it is better to start with smaller regions to govern, and a "regional development" fund with central oversight but local spending input to improve inequality?
The EU regional development fund is a fund you need to apply for and there are all sorts of rules, but it bought trains for Ireland, tourism centre for NI etc. It is not devolution, but helped.
Because yep the money part will be hard as regions will fight for it. Perhaps some sort of metrics can be agreed upon to prevent most of that... IDK, it will be hard.
Perhaps it is better to start with smaller regions to govern, and a "regional development" fund with central oversight but local spending input to improve inequality?
The EU regional development fund is a fund you need to apply for and there are all sorts of rules, but it bought trains for Ireland, tourism centre for NI etc. It is not devolution, but helped.
Because yep the money part will be hard as regions will fight for it. Perhaps some sort of metrics can be agreed upon to prevent most of that... IDK, it will be hard.
This doesn't really work though.