Zaia Calls for a National End-of-Life Law in Regional Council Debate

Luca Zaia told Veneto’s regional council that Italy should adopt a national law on end-of-life care rather than leave each region to legislate separately.

“An act of great loyalty and responsibility would be to approve a law at national level that ends the need for every region to adopt a law,” Zaia said after addressing the council. The debate has drawn nationwide attention as the regional body considers the issue.

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An act of great loyalty and responsibility would be to approve a law at national level that ends the need for every region to adopt a law.

Zaia said the dispute has continued since the case of Eluana Englaro in 2009. Englaro died that year after artificial feeding was suspended under a court ruling rather than a specific law.

He added that successive governments with different majorities had failed to resolve the issue. Zaia said this was not the fault of the national parliament or the current government, but argued that national legislation should now settle the matter.

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This matter has continued since the case of Eluana Englaro in 2009.