Regionalismo differenziato: un cammino a ritroso partendo dai più recenti accadimenti

Abstract

Starting from an overview of the current complex situation of the pandemia, the paper aims at analyzing the difficult path of creating in Italy some Regions with extra powers and functions, according to the constitutional provision of art. 116, Section III of the Constitution, which envisages the possibility to create an intermediate level between existing ordinary Regions (regioni a statuto ordinario) and special Regions (regioni a statuto speciale)  The most recent developments of the longlasting process of implementing the constitutional provision, i.e. the bill put forward in December 2019 by the Ministry for Regional Affaires, shows the unanswered and unsolved issues linked to the implementation of the Article itself. The critical elements of the bill impose a serious thinking on future possible solutions, with the ultimate aim to implement a virtuous process of differentiation, urgently needed because of the different characteristics that exist among the Italian Regions.