Italy

The Italian Constitutional Court (hereafter ICC or “the Court”) has characterized its 2022 case law with a consolidation of previously emerged trends. In particular, the Court engaged a relational approach toward the legislator, utilizing a wide range of decisional methods and stimulating its intervention through multiple warnings and recommendations. On a “vertical” dimension, the Court’s case law in 2022 was characterized by a fine-tuning of its jurisprudence inaugurated in 2017, affirming an ever-integrated and multi-layered model of protection of fundamental rights. However, the Court reaffirmed some of the basic principles governing the relations between domestic law and EU law.