The country was little more than a loose federation of regions and tribes before Colonel Qaddafi came to power.
"But for a long time it has not been a federation of regions but one of corporations, in which each corporation has a certain measure of independence and sovereignty and, within this framework, is effectively out of the state's control".
Antonio Saitta, health director for the Piedmont region and health coordinator for the federation of regions, said the repeal was a "step backwards".
The Soviet Union had unraveled, and now Russia, itself a federation of 90 regions, threatened to disintegrate, just as many people worry that Iraq might do now that the heavy hand of Mr. Hussein has been lifted.
One way to achieve this, and to simultaneously undercut the xenophobic nationalism of the far right, would be to transform the EU into a decentralised federation of the regions.
They demanded the reinstatement of Mr Hadi and reaffirmed their support for Yemen becoming a federation of six regions, as agreed last year at the National Dialogue Conference.
They subsequently participated in a National Dialogue Conference NDCC), which led to President Hadi announcing plans in February 2014 for Yemen to become a federation of six regions.
Its cause was separatism — Italy as a federation of fiscally independent regions — the idea being to free the prosperous North from having to pay the bills of an impoverished and, as Salvini puts it, "culturally different" South.
But extremists among the 500,000 or so Turkmen who live in Iraq are ready to call in Turkey to keep the Kurds out.Wiser counsel suggests that Iraq should be a federation of strictly administrative regions, not of tribes.
He can do that by forcing constitutional reform that would reconfigure Ukraine into a federation of highly autonomous regions, in effect allowing Moscow veto power in the Russian-speaking border areas already under its sway.
In 2006, Biden, then a senator, co-authored an Op-Ed in the Times with Leslie Gelb, the former president of the Council on Foreign Relations, in which they made the case for a federation of Kurdish, Sunni, and Shiite regions, overseen by a central government but "responsible for their own domestic laws, administration and internal security".
