Timeline for How can we define which EU countries are giving more power to regions? Which patterns are used to evaluate it?
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| Oct 3, 2017 at 15:39 | comment | added | fedorqui | (...) However, as time passed, democracy stabilised and wealth increased, more and more power was given to regions. However, nowadays there are more or less three blocks: parties aiming to recentralize or at least freeze (PP, Ciudadanos), parties aiming for some kind of Federalism (the ones you mentioned, although PSOE is a bit ambiguous and has different opinions throughout regions) and then independentists. All agree in that Constitution should be changed, but there is no consensous at all about what should be the result. | |
| Oct 3, 2017 at 15:35 | comment | added | fedorqui | Most of it comes from the Spanish transition to democracy after 40 years of fascist dictatorship. Prior to the dictatorship, some nationalist regions aimed for more sovereignity and this, partly, lead to the Civil war and then Franco in the power with a very centralist government. So in 1975-1978, while writing the Constitution, there was both a fear and a pressure not to decentralize the power to keep the army "calm". Time passed and more power was given to regions after big demonstrations, but a coup d'état stopped the trend. | |
| Oct 3, 2017 at 15:07 | comment | added | armatita | @fedorqui As I was writing this answer It came to mind that didn't really know why did Spain move towards Devolution (the technical name for its class of system) instead of Federalism. But by reading the Federalism article more carefully there is a clear chapter about Proposed Federalism, with a few paragraphs for the specific case for Spain. The article claims the some parties (Podemos, Izquierda Unida, Partido Socialista Obrero Español) do promote some form of Federalism for Spain. | |
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| Oct 3, 2017 at 13:47 | comment | added | fedorqui | This is a very thorough answer which also provides juicy resources that I will enjoy reading. Thanks a lot! By the way, in Spain they call "café para todos" (coffee for everyone) to some political decisions made to the end of the 70s. Those allowed all regions to have extensive powers to get what the historical nations had been granted (Catalonia, Basque country and Galicia) | |
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| Oct 2, 2017 at 16:23 | history | answered | armatita | CC BY-SA 3.0 |