La carrera infinita entre las comunidades autónomas en España e Italia. La paradoja de Aquiles y la tortuga como efecto (no deseado) del regionalismo asimétrico [The infinite race between the autonomous communities in Spain and Italy. The paradox of Achilles and the turtle as an (unwanted) effect of asymmetric regionalism]

The Spanish experience provides useful indications on the trajectory of the “Estado autonomico” as a model of decentralization, even to understand the possible evolution of regionalism in Italy. The center-right government led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has once again strongly raised the issue of territorial differentiation, taking advantage of the possibility granted to ordinary Regions to request "additional forms and particular conditions of autonomy", in accordance with art. 116.3 of the Constitution (the so-called asymmetric regionalism), which until today had remained inactive. The most obvious risk of a totally asymmetric model, id est extended to the ordinary Italian Regions, consists in the start of an endless race between differentiated (rich) and non-differentiated (less rich) Regions, according to a dynamic of perennial rapprochement-distancing, as revealed by the Spanish experience.