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VENICE, Italy – Venice, renowned for incomparable Gothic architecture and placid canals plied by gondolas that make it one of the most recognizable cities in the world, may have had enough of Italy.

Seth Dixon‘s insight:

Some of the wealthiest regions of the poorest countries of the European Union are seeking for greater regional autonomy and even independence.  As one resident said, “I have always felt as a Venetian first, and Italian second.”  The scale at which people construct their primary identities and political loyalties play a key role to the political geographic concept of devolution, where power shifts from a central authority to more local control.  So independence moves are to start negotiating.  As another Venetian said, “I think we’ll end up with a little more autonomy and a little more pride in our city” and not actual independence.

Tags: Italy,  political, economic, states, autonomy, devolution.

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