In Italy, "proposals to increase regional autonomy risk increasing the complexity of the fiscal framework" So the EU Commission in the report on Italy. Without additional resources, it may be difficult to provide the same essential levels of services in historically low-spending regions, also due to the lack of an equalisation mechanism.
"The reform envisaged by the new framework law risks jeopardising the government's ability to direct public spending," says the report. (ANSA)i.