Per un elogio del primato, con uno sguardo lontano. Note a Corte cost. n. 67 del 2022

The Italian Constitutional Court (ItCC) judgment no. 67 of 2022 is marked by two aspects. Firstly, the recognition of primacy as the architrave of the European system and its values, and at the same time the driver of the domestic system, in a legal system in which the Courts assume and act as guarantors of reciprocal rights and obligations. Secondly, the persistent vitality of disapplication, the traditional way of guaranteeing the primacy of EU law, which the new approach introduced by the ItCC’s decision no. 269 of 2017 had made less certain. Arguably, the reasons for reaffirming the primacy do not depend on the case in question, but on the need, in the face of the rule of law crisis and, today, of a new war in the continent, to reaffirm the values on which the European Union is based. SOMMARIO: 1. Introduzione: il caso. - 2. Primi rilievi: una comunità di corti nazionali legate da convergenti diritti e obblighi. - 3. I criteri della disapplicazione. - 4. Il contesto: uno sguardo lontano, la rule of law e ora la guerra.