TERRITORIAL ACCOMMODATION OF MINORITY GROUPS: THE CASE OF SOUTH TYROL
TERRITORIAL ACCOMMODATION OF MINORITY GROUPS: THE CASE OF SOUTH TYROL

Summary/Abstract: The proposed paper illustrates the minority rights protection model in Italy with a focus on the Autonomous Region of Trentino-South Tyrol and the Autonomous Province of South Tyrol. It analyses the consociational model of power-sharing and the theories of territorial autonomy as an accommodating tool for settling ethnic disputes is the leading concept in this paper. Italy has progressively and distinctively different legal order distinguishing it from the liberal and the French ‘civic’ settings. This paper presents in brief the Italian legal order and its development as a rich and complex instrument in regards to the juridical treatment of differences, as sophisticated model studied even abroad. Thus the paper links the legal instruments of the European Union in regards to the protection of minority groups and the regional policy and crossborder cooperation and the Italian model of accommodating minorities, presenting the case of territorial autonomy as the most suitable solution in a multicultural and multilingual society.

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