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Dr Jayampathy Wickramaratne wrote an article to the Sri Lankan newspaper on the proposed 20th Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka.

In Elisabeth Alber’s blog post “Action and reaction: What Covid-19 can teach us about Italian regionalism”, she discusses how Italy’s decentralization intersected with the management of the Covid-19 crisis in early 2020.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: FEDERAL SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE PROGRAMME 2021 – Apply by 1 July 2020!

The Federal Scholar in Residence Program addresses experts who wish to present and discuss questions of federalism and regionalism that are of importance to legislators, civil servants and the international academic community. It promotes comparative research at Eurac Research and aims to interconnect experts and their networks in order to advance comparative federal and regional studies.

Anna Gamper of the Institut für Föderalismus reflects on “Federalism an the Coronavirus Pandemic in Austria”

Peter Bussjaeger of the Institut für Föderalismus’s thought piece on Federalism and Corona-Crisis in Austria

Mireia Grau-Creus and Marc Sanjaume-Calvet recently wrote a blog on Intergovernmental relations in Spain and the COVID19 crisis.

Jayampathy Wickramaratne has published a paper entitled “Doctrine of Necessity: Stumbling Against the Same Stone in Pakistan - A Mistake Not to be Emulated in Sri Lanka”.

The Baxter Family Competition on Federalism will be returning for a 3rd edition in 2020-2021. The overarching goal of the Competition is to advance research and foster informed debate on federalism.