The appeal in the Constitutional Court could be good for us
The Italian Government will present the Constitutional Court against the Veneto Regional Court which recognizes the Veneto people the application of the Framework Convention on national minorities. In practice it recognizes the Venetian being a “national minority”.
The fact is that I am the father of the law, But it is not exactly the one written by me and proposed by 7 municipal councils. E’ exit from the Regional Council with the total rewriting of Article 3, set us, AND WITH 2 new paragraphs of which I personally learned only at the time of publication in BUR. Since at the moment it is not given to know what points the government will appeal, It is also useless to conjecture.
Paradoxically though, The appeal could also strengthen the rights of the Venetians with the partial demolition of the law, For more the only one possible. Indeed, Since the Venetian people have been present for millennia in the area from Bergamo to Udine, It is not in the power of the government simply to say that the Venetian people do not exist, because it has already been recognized since 1971.
But it is also clear that the only Veneto Region cannot play the role that has been the solitary actuator of the Framework Convention on national minorities, In accordance with the framework convention which requires that the whole historical territory of the Venetians will be managed by a single autonomous region.
In short, paradoxically the law should even be strengthened by the government, and in any case I do not believe that the Council of Europe will accept the clear violation of the rights of the Venetian people constituted by the simple denial of its existence.
We will evaluate what to do at the moment that the text of the appeal will be known, but certainly the rights of “national minority” they can no longer be deleted, It can only be discussed only on the methods of implementing the framework agreement, which, however, must be as quick as possible without artifices and scams, in good faith (Art.1 Convention).
Also because if Italy will be serious tears of international standards, The right-duty of the International Community to intervene also sanctioned by the Framework Convention, also guaranteeing the independence of the Venetians if necessary.
Certainly the theme will remain on the table.
Here's what the government wrote “1) Veneto region law n. 28 of the 13/12/2016, "Application of the Framework Convention for the protection of national minorities", as the law in question, which qualifies the Venetian population as "national minority", and provides that the rights referred to in the "Framework Convention for the protection of national minorities" of the Council of Europe, exceeds regional and purple competences various constitutional principles: those who reserve the implementation of international treaties and conventions and international state relations for state legislation, established by articles. 80 E 117 second paragraph, became. A), constitution; the principle, that the constitutional jurisprudence leads to art. 6 the Constitution, which places the identification of minorities to be protected in the state legislator, the methods of determining their identification elements and institutes that characterize this protection;”
