Perspectives on Federalism is a free on-line peer-reviewed journal, promoted by the Centre for Studies on Federalism.

1. 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)

  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 ...

2. The Constitutional Court gives fiscal federalism new opportunities, but only for regions endowed with special autonomy
(Marco Calcagno/Note)

... Constitution still looks very far away. Within this stagnating situation, sentence no. 102/2008 discloses optimistic opportunities for Italian fiscal federalism, but only for Regions endowed with special ...

3. The Italian Constitutional Court Turn Its Look at Europe
(Paolo Fusaro/Note)

... deferment in the context of a sentence of constitutionality primarily promoted by the State in relation to the regional law. ...