Talk:Italy

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Who is Christopher Columbus?

Friendly Staff Who is Christopher Columbus? English man? OMG... Cristoforo Colombo! R.I.P!! Is not correct! Cristoforo Colombo (name of baptism also, in latino: Christophorus Columbus, in spagnolo: Cristóbal Colón, in portoghese: Cristóvão Colombo;) Please, use correct name.. God rest his soul

Good Work — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kimotori (talk • contribs) 00:01, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Politics section

Hello, I'm proposing the following changes regarding the Politics section.

The current "Law and criminal justice" section is very short. While "The Supreme Court of Cassation is the highest court in Italy for both criminal and civil appeal cases" is technically true, it is also very misleading for the general English-speaking reader. There is a very important split in the Italian judicial system between ordinary courts (private and criminal law) and administrative courts (administrative law), which the section neglects to mention. So for example, administrative court cases will never go before the Supreme Court of Cassation because the court of last resort for administrative matters is the Council of State.

Also, while organized crime in Italy definitely needs to be discussed in the article, I think it should go in a separate section (or maybe in the "Law enforcement" section), rather than in the general "Law" section, which should focus on the describing the Italian legal system.

Therefore, I suggest renaming the "Law and criminal justice" section into "Law", with the following content. I used the following sources for reference: [[1]] [[2]] [[3]] [[4]]

The Italian judicial system is based on Roman law modified by the Napoleonic code and later statutes. Italian magistrates are split in two categories: ordinary magistrates and special courts.

Ordinary magistrates comprise both ordinary judges and public prosecutors and exercise jurisdiction over civil and criminal matters. They belong to a common judicial order whose independence and autonomy is guaranteed by the Constitution. Recruitment, allocation, transfer, promotion, and disciplinary measures of ordinary magistrates, though they can be initiated by the Ministry of Justice, are decided by the High Council of the Judiciary (''Consiglio Superiore della Magistratura''), a self-governing body of magistrates presided over by the President of the Republic. Except for three ''ex officio'' members (the President of the Republic and the President and Prosecutor General of the Supreme Court of Cassation) the members of the High Council of the Judiciary are elected for two-thirds by ordinary magistrates and for one-third by the Parliament in joint session. The Supreme Court of Cassation is the court of last resort for both criminal and civil appeal cases, as well as for disputes over the jurisdiction of ordinary and special courts.

The creation of new special courts and judges is prohibited by the Constitution of Italy, but it allows for the continued existence of special courts predating the Constitution. The Constitution also makes provisions for the existence of separate administrative courts, which decide on cases regarding the infringement of legitimate interests (rather than rights, which fall under the jurisdiction of ordinary courts), the legitimacy of administrative acts and measures, and other disputes between private parties and and public authorities according to law. The Council of State (acting in its judicial capability) is the court of last resort for administrative disputes. The Constitution of Italy also establishes the Court of Accounts, who has jurisdiction over accounting matters.

The Constitutional Court of Italy (Corte Costituzionale), a post–World War II innovation, rules on the conformity of laws with the Constitution, having the power to repeal unconstitutional laws, and over conflicts of power between State institutions, between State and Regions, and between Regions.

In the "Administrative division" section, "Italy is subdivided into 20 regions (regioni), five of these regions having a special autonomous status that enables them to enact legislation on some of their local matters" is a bit misleading. All 20 regions have the power to enact legislation over local matters (the exact boundaries are set by article 117 of the Constitution), so this is not what is special about the five autonomous ones. What is special about them is that their Statutes, unlike the Statutes of the remaining 15 regions, are part of and have the same rank as the Constitution. This means the Statutes can give the Region special powers (for example, the power to legislate in matters which are normally reserved to the State), a special political system (for example, the very peculiar system of Trentino-South Tyrol), etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Loudo89 (talk • contribs) 13:22, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 15 February 2016

Averyanderson5578 (talk) 06:11, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. Cannolis (talk) 13:42, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Unitary state?

The article declares that Italy is a unitary state, but according to the Italian constitution article 131 (or at least if I have understood it correctly, having read it from here) regions can be merged or their boundaries be changed only with the consent of the regions themselves and the consent of their citizens by a popular referendum. Wouldn't this make Italy a federation as the central government cannot alter the regions unilaterally? And also all of the regions are specifically/individually mentioned by name in the Italian Constitution, so a change in the composition of the regions would also require a constitutional amendment. Also the Italian regions have substantial legislative powers and the division of power between the "Italian state" (central government) and the regions is clearly defined in the Italian constitution. Regards --Ransewiki (talk) 17:28, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Italy sharing Adriatic Sea with ....

Italy sharing/have sea border on Adriatic Sea with Slovenia,Croatia,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Montenegro and Albania.

Can that be put in please ?

Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy — Preceding unsigned comment added by Darthtiho (talk • contribs) 13:28, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

 Not done Were are the source? Moreover, on itwiki (NOT a source per se) there is nothing about it. Alex2006 (talk) 16:00, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 11 June 2016

106.76.150.1 (talk) 10:29, 11 June 2016 (UTC)

Not done: as you have not requested a change.
If you want to suggest a change, please request this in the form "Please replace XXX with YYY" or "Please add ZZZ between PPP and QQQ".
Please also cite reliable sources to back up your request, without which no information should be added to, or changed in, any article. - Arjayay (talk) 14:12, 11 June 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 6 August 2016

151.40.1.132 (talk) 01:11, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

In the article related to "Italy" Economy of Italythe average net wage of Italy in 2015 is according to the official EU source Eurostat 1725€/month and 20702€/year (see a person 100% wage) .Now in Economy of Italy article is just a private and dated study of 2014 by Jp that must be deleted and set the 2015 report by Eurostat as reference.Thanks.151.40.1.132 (talk) 01:11, 6 August 2016 (UTC)