Diritti di cittadinanza e federalismo possibile: una riflessione tra nuovo Titolo V della Costituzione italiana e progetto di Carta costituzionale europea

Autore: Paolo De Ioanna
In: Meridiana. 46, 2003
doi:10.1400/78333
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Abstract

Citizenship rights and feasible federalism: a reflection on the Italian Constitution and the draft of European Constitution
The Italian juridical and economic system, for a not random coincidence, is at the center of a double flow of pressures: at European level, it takes part in the constitutive phase of a solid and structured public framework, forerunner of new, feasible federal schemes; at national level, there is the challenge of actually realizing the new constitutional scheme based on the idea of a fiscal federalism. In this paper, the author firstly examines the matters to be faced at the internal level. In particular, the ties between the constitutional innovations (introduced with the new Title V) and the remaining part of the Constitution. Two aspects are investigated in-depth: first, the issue of the essential levels of civil and social benefits to be guaranteed on the whole national territory. Secondly, the way in which the equalisation system should be implemented. The domestic analysis is then projected at the European level, to show the essential knots which seem to be settled at this level in the perspective of a reinforcement of the core fiscal powers of the European Union. Between the two contexts, the author identifies a precise link: the idea of political citizenship and democratic participation which lives as much as fed and supported by solidarity and equalisation duties, as shown by the theory and the practice of fiscal and budget literature.