A nightmare of the EU Commission is becoming true: as part of the fallout of the German Constitutional Court decision May 5, declaring that the bond sales by the EU are not legal under German Consitutional Law, Italian Sen. Toni Iwobi has filed a proposal to free the Italian Constitution from the subjugation of national law to EU law. The proposal (DDL S. 1838) is a one liner that says: “At Article 117, first comma of the Constitution, the words ‘as well as of the constraints deriving from the Union legislation and from international obligations’ are suppressed”.
The proposal has been filed at the Senate Presidency June 3 and has been undersigned by the entire Lega group in the Senate. In the explanation, it says: “No effective and ‘custom made’ reform for our country can ever be implemented without a revision of the effectiveness of the European Treaties in our legislation and without re-establishing the primacy of fundamental rights.
“In order to protect the interests of citizens with respect to rules imposed by Europe, which have often proved themselves counterproductive for the economic and social interests of our Republic, it is fundamental to give relevance back to the Italian constitutional norms and put a barrier to the uncritical subjection to International treaties, similar to what is already provided for in the German Constitution.
“It is therefore proposed to modify article 117 of the Constitution which has caused many doubts as to how it must be understood, thus placing international treaties no longer among the norms of constitutional value, but among those of ordinary domestic law.
“In this way, with the protection dictated by the primary rights of the Constitutional Charter and by the status of absolute law in regard to its regulation, the state can better ensure absolute respect for fundamental rights of the citizen and avoid the regrettable drift of subordination to vested economic and financial interests, which have increasingly led to a reversed polarity of rights, including the absurd pre-eminence of the decimal figures of the public budget accounts, instead of caring and developing the person as intended as an individual bearer of inalienable interests.
