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June 20, 2018
1:36 pm
Constitutional Change

In Italy the new Government was sworn in but a question comes up from the shadow: did the “Government of Change” start out by prompting a constitutional change?

by Dario Elia Tosi In the last week, Italy overcame one of the deepest political turmoil of the last decades. The new Government and the parliamentary majority, which supports it, describe the new institutional layout as the “Government of Change”.

July 26, 2016
11:03 am
Constitutional Change

“Vote Yes for a Safe Italy” or “Vote No to Defend the Constitution”: Italian Constitutional Politics between Majoritarianism and Civil Resistance

by Paul Blokker ‘In order to obtain a united Europe against terrorism, we need a strong country, with a Constitution that gives stability’. In this way, Maria Elena Boschi, the Italian Minister for Constitutional Reform, recently justified the pending comprehensive reform of the Italian Constitution of 1948. Boschi’s ambiguous observation – suggesting that a vote against the constitutional reform project in the upcoming referendum in October leaves Italy more vulnerable in the face of terrorism – is part of an intense public debate in Italy.

October 23, 2014
7:33 am
Constitutional Change

Constitutional revision in Italy: lessons from the past for the Constitution of the future

by Giammaria Milani, PhD Candidate, University of Siena. The constitutional revision bill approved by the Italian Senate on August 8, 2014 deals with an issue that has resurfaced cyclically in the Italian political debate: the revision of Part II of the Italian Constitution, dedicated to the form of government and the relationship between the State and the Regions. At least since the early 1980s, several attempts have been made to amend the Constitution, but only once (2001) these have been successful, providing for an extensive revision of the State-Regions relationship.

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International Conference on “Militant Democracy and Constitutionalism: Do procedural aspects of democracy affect its substance?”Call for Papers: Deadline by February 10, 2024

08/11/2023

The School of Law, University of Nicosia, in collaboration with the Themistocles and Dimitris Tsatsos Foundation – Centre for European Constitutional Law (CECL) invite submission

Rethinking the U.S. Constitutional Amending Process After the Dobbs Decision

27/06/2022

By Dr. John R. Vile, professor of political science and dean of the University Honors College at Middle Tennessee State University.

Tsatsos Foundation Forum 2022 “Constitution – Economy – Europe”

05/05/2022

More info: https://projector-web.gr/Mindview/en/tsatsos-foundation-forum-2022/registration

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