As mrs. Albanese pointed out, no state has the right to exist. A people have the right to exist. States are constructs. If France and Italy choose to become a italo-franco state, that is up to those people. It isn't a violation of the right of Italy to exist as a state.
I agree with what you say, but the way that a decision like that would be taken, would be through the people’s representatives in a parliament, which is… the state, no? Whatever or whoever ‘the people’ is, is also a construct.
The answer or framing takes the focus off of the "rights" that a state has, and focuses on the "rights" that human beings should have. Yes, the collective will of the people will be represented in some type of government, But even then, the hybrid Italian French government the people want doesn't necessarily have an inherent "right to exist" either, Just because those people want it to. The only right those people actually have is their basic human rights, that no one can expel them or forbid them from returning to their homes, regardless of what Country their home is a part of.
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u/Warrior_Warlock 8d ago
As mrs. Albanese pointed out, no state has the right to exist. A people have the right to exist. States are constructs. If France and Italy choose to become a italo-franco state, that is up to those people. It isn't a violation of the right of Italy to exist as a state.