Regional Powers and Europeanization process in Spain
Regional Powers and Europeanization process in Spain

Author(s): José Angel Risco Oliva
Subject(s): Governance, Recent History (1900 till today)
Published by: AMO – Asociace pro mezinárodní otázky
Keywords: post-Franco Spain;
Summary/Abstract: The Spanish transition after Franco´s death and the democratic model established have been underlined as an example of pacific democratisation, unique and exemplar in the whole world. The system of Comunidades Autónomas (Autonomous Communities) gave the firsts steps to achieve the devolution of competencies to the different regions. Now this system is being questioned strongly than ever and different reforms of the regional statutes have appeared in the last years, showing that the regional powers are claiming for more decentralisation and competencies. This reforms covers from almost independent projects, as the rejected on February 2005 by the Spanish parliament, Ibarretxe´s Plan (Basque Country), the highly self-government proposal of Catalan statute1 (approved by the Spanish Senate on May 2006), to the new Statute of Valencian Community (first reform approved, on September 2005) or the Andalusia case

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