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Gianluca Gardini
The Spanish experience provides useful indications on the trajectory of the decentralized State, also for understanding the possible evolution of regionalism in Italy. The centre right government has strongly raised the issue of territorial differentiation, taking Spanish asymmetrical regionalism as a model. But this model certainly no longer corresponds to the current one. The standardization (igualación) of competencies has had the effect of eliminating the initial “juridicalµ differentiation between the Spanish territories, and on the one hand has paved the way for further requests by the first level Regions, with the effect of draying up the powers of the State, on the other hand has pushed Catalonia to embark on a path of separation from the rest of the country
