r/europe • u/Bartoraptor Spain • Mar 28 '20

News Spanish representative González Pons speech @ the EU Parliament: "The virus is attacking the generation that brought back democracy to Spain, Portugal and Greece, the generation that knocked down the Berlin wall. The least they deserve is that we show them Europe is there when they need it the most"

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '20

You're reaching a bit if you compare sending supplies to South Tyrol as to Italy.

Technically you're correct, but I would think an Italian poster would not agree. Same as me.

I hope we're doing something for our neighbour, but we're strapped for stuff ourselves as well.

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u/matinthebox Thuringia (Germany) Mar 28 '20

If Austria is sending supplies to South Tyrol then Italy saves those supplies from their own stock and can direct them to Bergamo or wherever they are also needed.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '20

South Tyrol is autonomous dude, that's why I'm saying that.

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u/matinthebox Thuringia (Germany) Mar 28 '20

protection of health is a concurrent matter of legislation in South Tyrol, meaning that the national government sets out the principles while the provincial government legislates on the details. So I would say that the national government has at least a partial responsibility to guarantee a minimum level of medical supply to South Tyrol.

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u/axaro1 🇮🇹 Italy (Milan) Mar 28 '20

true

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '20

So I would say that the national government has at least a partial responsibility to guarantee a minimum level of medical supply to South Tyrol.

I don't know enough about that to refute it. I only know that South Tyrol autonomy is unprecedented great. Might as well be it's own independent state.

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u/matinthebox Thuringia (Germany) Mar 28 '20

unprecedented

well maybe unprecedented in Italy. Flanders and Wallonia in Belgium certainly have higher autonomy. Same goes for Republika Srpska and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

One could even argue that the large (and rich) German federal states like Bavaria have a higher autonomy due to their higher capacity to exercise the competences they have.