The essay explores the “new phase” unfolding in South Tyrol and in Italo-Austrian relations after the Copenhagen agreements of 1969 and the approval of the so-called “package” between the Italian government and the South Tyrolean People’s Party (Svp). The implementation of autonomy measures and the “operational calendar” fostered both the stabilisation of the Province of Bolzano and the normalisation of bilateral relations between Rome and Vienna after years of tension and separatist violence. The analysis is situated within the broader context of the 1970s, a decade marked by profound political and social change in South Tyrol and, at the international level, by East-West détente and the renewed momentum of European integration.