The impact of the financial crisis on the Spanish State and its regional structure

Authors

  • Enoch Albertí Rovira

Keywords:

Budgetary stability, State territorial organization, Autonomous Communities, political autonomy

Abstract

This article aims to study the effect of the new legal framework to achieve budgetary stability (EU: Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union 2012, European Stability Mechanism Treaty 2012, Six Pack; Spain: reform of Article 135 of the Constitution, Organic Act 2012 and other legislation on budgetary stability) over the territorial organization and especially Spanish Autonomous Communities. This new framework affects not only financial autonomy of the Autonomous Communities, but also its political autonomy, and changes also their competences and powers of self-organization. All this, which binds to some problems of the original design of the Constitution and the development of regional model, leads to a crisis of territorial organization in Spain, where several scenarios arise.

Issue

Section

STUDIES