L'Europa ad un "bivio". Brevi considerazioni su una crisi "trasversale"

Abstract

This article focuses on the EU integration-related crisis. It offers an analysis of the most relevant judgements of the Court of Justice of the European Union’s early years, which changed the nature of the European law, in order to underline how the European integration process was reoriented in mid-1970s and subsequently transformed according to a neo-liberal model. Furthermore, this contribution describes how the economic and financial crisis increased the density of the fiscal rules and somehow forced the ECB to review its role. However, its impact on the already complex institutional structure of the EU - which could be defined as a weird political animal - has been negative and has further weighted it down.