This was more evident for the Czech Republic, Denmark, Italy, Korea, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Portugal. In these countries, the greatest increase in the capacity of decision making of local governance was about 30% (Czech Republic and Korea). From 2003 to 2007 decision making in the same areas continued to become more decentralised or remained highly decentralised in almost all countries with data available, except for Germany, Luxembourg and Mexico. In Belgium (FI.),