Europäisches Zentrum für Föderalismus-Forschung

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Weder Beschleunigung noch Abkürzung in Sicht: Italiens Weg zum Föderalismus bleibt mühsam

Francesco Palermo / Jens Woelk

S. 327-340

Five years after the constitutional reform reshaped the relations between State and Regions, the political and legal framework of Italian federalism-in-the-making continues to be rather confused. In 2006, a far-reaching constitutional reform adopted by Berlusconis majority in Parliament just before the end of the legislature was rejected by popular referendum in June and thus did not enter into force. As a consequence, no major constitutional reform is to be expected in the years to come. The referendum set the implementation process of the reform of 2001 in motion, especially regarding the financial relations between the layers of government: negotiations on this issue have just started. However, given the present political confrontation (the political parties are concentrating all their efforts on a reform of the electoral system), the unclear division of powers introduced by the reform of 2001 and not least the slow adoption of the new autonomy statutes by the Regions, the main role in determining the practical design of Italian regionalism is still played by the Constitutional Court.

Zitiervorschlag für diesen Artikel:
Palermo, Francesco/Woelk, Jens 2008: Weder Beschleunigung noch Abkürzung in Sicht: Italiens Weg zum Föderalismus bleibt mühsam, in: Europäisches Zentrum für Föderalismus-Forschung (Hrsg.): Jahrbuch des Föderalismus 2007. Föderalismus, Subsidiarität und Regionen in Europa, Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, S. 327-340.