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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...

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...

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...

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...