- Bolzano: abolished by the province expressions 'Altoatesino' and 'Alto Adige', controversy erupts
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October 14, 2019The Italian government moves and threatens to challenge the provision with which the Provincial Council of Bolzano has established that the words 'Alto Adige' and 'Alto Adige' are replaced in official documents by reference only to the Province of Bolzano, while the word in German language, Suedtirol."I have personally asked President Arno Kompatscher to intervene on the norm relating to the bill number 30 on the 'Provisions for the fulfillment of the obligations of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano deriving from Italy's membership of the European Union", said the Minister for Regional Affairs and Autonomies Francesco Boccia, "it is necessary to make the Italian and German texts perfectly identical and respectful of the Constitution".
"If this is not the case, the law will be challenged after its publication," Boccia warned. "It would be appropriate", the minister added, "to continue to discuss exclusively the needs of the community of the autonomous province of Bolzano and of the entire Trentino Alto Adige Region as we did with President Kompatscher in our first institutional meeting in Rome, instead of nominal ideological questions concerning the clash between the German right and the Italian right ".
"In the coming weeks I will be personally in Bolzano and Trento to address all the open files between Trentino Alto Adige and the Government", concluded Boccia.
Lollobrigida (Fdi): Urgent question to the government
"The decision of the Provincial Council of Bolzano to cancel the words Alto Adige and Alto Adige is scandalous. Brothers of Italy is about to file an urgent question to shed light and we will ask the government to challenge this shameful law that in one stroke intends to trample the our history and our Constitution. Minister Boccia has done well to announce actions in this sense, but words are followed by concrete and immediate facts. Enough with the secessionist aggressions of the SVP! ". Francesco Lollobrigida, leader of the Brotherhood of Italy in the Chamber, affirms this.
League: "We do not touch the term South Tyrol, but we need a concrete vision of the problems of the territory"
"Surely the ethnic contrasts are anachronistic, they do not do the good of the citizens and of the autonomies, but we need a concrete vision of the problems of the territory". This is how Filippo Maturi, a member of the Lega of Bolzano, asked for the deletion of the term Alto Adige, commissioned by the Bolzano Provincial Council. "Of course - assures the Northern League - the term 'Alto Adige' cannot be touched".
Boschi: "Cancellation South Tyrol grave error, throw away years work"
'' Having canceled the term 'Alto Adige' from European law with a majority strike was a serious mistake. I hope this is an isolated case and that it can be remedied. It would be unforgivable to throw away the work that for years the Italian, German and Ladin speaking population have done to respect each other and grow together ". This is stated by Maria Elena Boschi, president of the deputies of the Gruppo di Italia Viva." Moreover, even our Constitution and also the autonomy statute leave no room for doubt ", concludes Boschi.