Articles by Francisco Javier Romero Caro

April 25, 2025

Rising waters, fading lessons: how Spain bungled another crisis

Francisco Javier Romero Caro

Many regarded the coronacrisis as a shock that would reshape the management of public life, improving Spain's preparedness for future crises. But Francisco Javier Romero Caro explains how, in their disastrous handling of recent floods in Valencia, Spanish politicians seemed to have forgotten the lessons learned during the pandemic

Francisco Javier Romero Caro

Senior Researcher, Institute for Comparative Federalism, Eurac Research, Bolzano / Bozen

Francisco won the XVII Manuel Giménez Abad Award for his PhD dissertation on the Canadian federal system and the integration of Quebec.

The European Commission awarded him with the Seal of Excellence in the Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie call to develop a project on fiscal federalism and diversity accommodation.

His research interests encompass fiscal federalism, the territorial distribution of powers in multilevel systems (with a special focus on federal states) and the territorial integration of national minorities in secessionist contexts.

He is also co-coordinator of the research project LEGITIMULT, funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe Programme, which aims to develop a model of legitimate crisis governance.

In so doing, it assesses the impact of Covid-19 measures on democratic governance in 31 European democracies (EU-27, plus Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and the UK).

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Fiscal Federalism and Diversity Accommodation in Multilevel States: A Comparative Outlook
Palgrave, 2024, co-edited with Alice Valdesalici

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