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Globalization and Cross-Border Cooperation in EU Law: A Transnational Research Agenda
(Anna Margherita Russo/Essay)
(Anna Margherita Russo/Essay)
... process and in the implementation of legal rules, openness, emergence of hybrid legal phenomena which do not belong - exclusively at least - to the domain of hard or soft law), while the second part analyses ...
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Building Subnational Constitutionalism Through Identity Narratives. The Case of Spain
(Ilenia Ruggiu/Essay)
(Ilenia Ruggiu/Essay)
This paper analyses the process of reform of the Statutes in Spanish Comunidades Autonomas, which began in 2006, in order to stress the role that an identity narrative takes in it. Almost every Statute ...
... by populism of the Berlusconi variety. This study analyses the leading principles of participatory democracy as it is now practiced in Italy and clarifies their principal purposes, hoping for their development ...
The Author analyses the normative framework and the use of the referendum in Italy, at regional and local level. According to the Author, this level of the analysis could even be used as a preliminary ...
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Federalism, Fiscal Federalism and Health Federalism: Standard Costs in Legislative Decree No. 68 of May 6th, 2011
(Giorgio Grasso/Essay)
(Giorgio Grasso/Essay)
This paper analyses the regulation of standard costs in Legislative Decree No. 68/2011. It begins with an examination of some concepts that are often confused in the scientific and political debate, such ...
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We're one, but we're not the same: Enhanced Cooperation and the Tension between Unity and Asymmetry in the EU
(Carlo Maria Cantore/Essay)
(Carlo Maria Cantore/Essay)
... then it analyses the first two cases. Enhanced cooperation is a unique test to understand how the EU manages to balance unity and asymmetry, thus an analysis of the rules and the relevant practice is very ...
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The transfer of State Property to Regions and Local Authorities within the Italian Fiscal Federalism Reform
(Filippo Scuto/Essay)
(Filippo Scuto/Essay)
... assets and properties to territorial bodies according to this legislation is the first step in the implementation of the Fiscal Federalism Reform. The article analyses in depth the legal framework of this ...
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The Spinelli Group: an engine of the initiatives that Europe needs?
(Roberto Castaldi/editorial)
(Roberto Castaldi/editorial)
This paper analyses the importance of the creation of the Spinelli Group in the current context of the European unification process. If the Spinelli Group manages to take initiatives to advance the ability ...
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And nothing else matters. The ICJ’s judicial restraint in its Opinion on Kosovo’s Independence
(Giuseppe Bianco/Note)
(Giuseppe Bianco/Note)
... Resolution 1244 (1999) nor the Constitutional Framework prevented the authors from declaring independence. The author analyses the Court’s approach, its conclusions and the issues which remain open. ...
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The German Constitution in the future of the European Union after the sentence of the Federal Constitutional Court on the Lisbon Treaty
(Thomas Jansen/note)
(Thomas Jansen/note)
This note analyses the legal reasoning and the motivations of the recent judgment of the German Constitutional Court on the Lisbon Treaty and considers the possible impact of this ruling on the future ...
... of fiscal federalism and examines the consequences. The Article analyses the most important principles and directive criteria contained in the law, tackles certain problematical aspects and highlights ...
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The Role and Power of the European and the National Parliaments in the Dynamics of Integration
(Paola Bilancia/Essay)
(Paola Bilancia/Essay)
This essay aims at giving an overview on the role of the European and national Parliaments in the dynamics of integration. After resuming the main issues that such a subject present, the author analyses ...
This note analyses the new Charter of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, adopted in 2008. link: http://www.oic-oci.org ...
The Italian President, Giorgio Napolitano, and former Minister Tommaso Padoa Schioppa recently urged for the re-launch of the European unification process. This short note analyses and comments their ...
The article analyses the issue of monetary integration in Asia taking into account the most recent literature and the main contributes of the last decades both in economics and IR. It locates the debate ...