More than twenty years after the constitutional reform aimed at enhancing
territorial autonomy in Italy, the relations between the State and the Regions are still
based on an architecture that, in various sectors of the legal system, does not seem
updated to the new framework. In particular, the State has not fully reconciled
decentralization with equity of access to essential levels of services (ELS) concerning
civil and social rights that must be guaranteed throughout the national territory. The
implementation of fiscal autonomy of territorial governments is partial and not
homogeneous. These critical issues must now be understood in light of the mandatory
provisions of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) aimed at enacting
fiscal federalism and the will expressed by the Parliament to implement asymmetric
regionalism but only after the determination of the ELS. The obligations stemming from this framework make clear the implementation of the constitutional framework
can no longer be postponed
