Autonomia differenziata e ZES Unica: modelli di sviluppo compatibili o contrastanti?

Abstract

Any scholar who attempts to analyze the regional development policies recently adopted in Italy cannot fail to note a huge, substantial contradiction: on the one hand, the aim is correctly to unify and simplify interventions in favor of the economically weakest areas of the country through the suppression of the eight pre-existing Special Economic Zones and the creation of a single large SEZ for the South; on the other hand, there is an insistence on continuing the implementation of Law No. 86/2024 on differentiated autonomy (the so-called Calderoli Law), even after the massive demolition intervention of the Constitutional Court (which, in addition to raising several objections to the text of the law, rejected the proposal for an abrogative referendum presented against it), with the risk of further fragmenting, rather than unifying and coordinating, the public development policies of this country.