The differentiation of regional powers from the perspective of the Calderoli bill: some food for thought

Abstract

This contribution will try to analyze one of the most innovative and, at the same time, most controversial aspects of the reform of Title V of the Constitution, which is the so-called differentiated regionalism, pursuant to art. 116, paragraph 3, and that the Calderoli bill (now Senate Act n. 615), which indicates the procedures with which differentiated autonomy should be implemented, has rekindled it, after the irremediable slowdown due to the pandemic emergency the scientific debate. Not failing, however, to note how the debate on differentiated autonomy, in addition to focusing on the complex relationship between the legislative competences of the State and the Regions, cannot fail to take into account, in the context of a more articulated reasoning, also the strategic centrality of minor local authorities, and, in particular, of the metropolitan cities, the latter still looking for their definitive politicaladministrative role