The Regional State Through the Prism of Political Direction
Journal title DIRITTO COSTITUZIONALE
Author/s Andrea Conzutti
Publishing Year 2026 Issue 2026/2
Language Italian Pages 24 P. 109-132 File size 197 KB
DOI 10.3280/DC2026-002006
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The essay re-reads Italian regionalism through the lens of political direction (indirizzo politico). It shows how the Regions, conceived as entities capable of setting their own political course through legislation, saw that promise hollowed out by a centralist interpretation of the division of competences, which survived the reform of Title V. The underlying thesis is that the political dimension of autonomy has not vanished: it has changed form, migrating to the State-Regions Conference, where regional executives help shape the national political-legislative direction without, however, being able to constrain it in legal terms. Hence the proposal: constitutionalising the Conference and embedding it in the national legislative process, so as to turn influence into a guarantee and revive a genuinely political regionalism.
Keywords: Regional State, Political Direction, Regional Political Autonomy, State-Regions Conference, Loyal Cooperation.
Andrea Conzutti, Lo Stato regionale nel prisma dell’indirizzo politico in "DIRITTO COSTITUZIONALE" 2/2026, pp 109-132, DOI: 10.3280/DC2026-002006