Of direct effect, primacy and constitutional identities: Rome and Luxembourg enmeshed in the Taricco case / Zoom In
Carrot and Stick. The Italian Constitutional Court’s Preliminary Reference in the Case Taricco
1. A new type of preliminary reference: the ‘threatening reference of appeal’ Order 24/2017 is the third request for a preliminary ruling the Italian Constitutional Court (‘ICC’) has referred to the European Court of Justice (‘ECJ’),[1] but it significantly differs from the previous two. The first and the second request – orders 103/2008 and 207/2013...
