Attualità dello statuto della regione siciliana

The statute draws a Sicilian regional autonomy "more than special" fruit of a particular historical and political context, that of the first post-war, which makes it probably now obsolete. On the one hand, the constitutional balances have been revised, and indeed largely subverted, while respecting the principle of autonomy, in particular the reform of Title V of the Constitution of 2001, and second, the same relationships "external" between legal are in place, strongly influenced by the advent of the European Union and, more generally, by the phenomena of world globalization. It follows the need to "modernize" the Statute in a system in which the concept of "sovereignty" - at least, in its meaning "traditional" that refers to an entity not superiorem recognoscens - is called into question, but also to "adapt "the constitutional reforms that have occurred, taking into account the absolute peculiarities that characterize certain statutory provisions, today (rightly or wrongly) completely disregarded. In the thought of Ignatius Maria Marino those needs are deeply felt through critical reading, updated and astute of matter capable of advocating the future prospects statutory regional: it follows the indication of the most important problems of the system, a system unable to find in it the germ of renewal because of the separation, now endemic, between citizens and the political system. It is a complaint vibrated and heartfelt, which emphasizes the serious democratic deficit and, last but not least, the inability to make decisions affecting the current political system, not able to carry through reforms that need to Country including the adaptation and updating of a statute such as the Sicilian regional.