Regione siciliana : a proposito del compimento di settanta anni di vita della sua autonomia

Unlike most Italian regions, Sicily is under a special statute. In 2016 its statute celebrated its seventieth year of age, and, on this occasion, it was ascertained how, on the juridical plane, its "speciality" has greatly diminished because of the supremacy of the constitutional regulations issued by both the Italian Republic and the European Union. As a consequence, the Sicilian Statute is no longer the same as it was in 1946 and needs reviewing. In the above text, it has been questioned whether Sicily is still in a position, for the power of History in its course, to be able to claim a "special" statute, compared to the other Italian Regions. The historical moment which determined, in 1946, a special statute for Sicily was still connected to the nineteenth century when Sicily was considered as a separate kingdom. Moreover, in the 1940s it was the scene of independence movements: these are very distant episodes of history.

Today's Sicily has had 70 years' homogenization with the Italian Republic, in whose formation Sicily itself took an active part. [Publisher's text].