La proyección exterior de las Comunidades Autónomas: condicionantes territoriales y políticos

Abstract

The Autonomous Communities are able and intended to carry out different actions beyond national borders. However, its external projection portrays some of the issues classically associated with the State of Autonomies, like, for instance, an uneven and open regulation. Thus, the territorial issue emerges on the one hand. It does so through the recurrent tension between the centre and the periphery and, at the same time, by evidencing the inability for the different actors to coordinate and reach common agreements. On the other hand, the political and circumstantial context aggravates the conflicts, and even creates an irresolvable situation if it is attempted to solve them by a jurisdictional process. Without a doubt, the external projection of regional authorities will adjust better when de Autonomous State is defined to a greater extent.