Volume 82 (2025), Edition 1-2

In April 2025, a draft legislative text agreed between Rome and Bozen-Bolzano/Trento on a reform of the Autonomy Statute of the region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol for the purpose of ‘restoring’ and ‘extending’ this autonomy was presented....

The reform of the Autonomy Statute for Trentino-South Tyrol yielded only modest expansions of legislative competence for South Tyrol. Numerous proposals were rejected by the central government in Rome. Key instruments of state intervention, notably...

South Tyrol’s autonomy is widely regarded as a successful model of minority protection. Since the early 2000s, however, it has been gradually curtailed by the centralist jurisprudence of the Italian Constitutional Court. A reform of the Autonomy...

In 2022, the President of South Tyrol led a coordinated effort with other regional/provincial governments with an enhanced autonomy (Trentino, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Valle d’Aosta/Vallée d’Aoste, Sardegna) aimed at elaborating the draft of a...

According to the current draft for the reform of the special statute for the Trentino-South Tyrol region, the region is to be renamed in German to Trentino-Südtirol/Alto Adige. This renaming raises, on the one hand, questions about the political...

The Åland Islands is an autonomous part of Finland with their own parliament with legislative powers in most local matters. In order to run for the parliament, to vote in local elections, to run a business and to own real estate you have to be an...

This paper explores the transformation of the Spanish language in Western Sahara, from its introduction as a colonial language during the Spanish occupation to its redefinition as a symbol of identity and political resistance for the Sahrawi people....