Europa, Stato e sovranità dopo la Brexit

After the British decision to leave the EU, Europe’s future is a risk. It is the European Union’s fault that did not believed in its future, in political integration, in the building of the United States of Europe. Even today, the European Union is like a marketplace with its own currency and treaties. A space without a State, a Constitution, an effective Bank with the right to mint coins. The European Union is not a «sovereign» organization of states, but an organization of «sovereign States», each with its own sovereignty, exercised through consensual and integrated forms. But the idea of sovereignty cannot be divided. Sovereignty either exists or does not exist. Thinking of treaties as instruments for transferring sovereignty is wrong. The Treaties do not transfer the sovereignty of States, but they limit it only. As long as the European Union will not be able to break this knot, Europe is condemned to remain in the future as a Staatsverbund, as has been often defined by the Karlsruhe judges in recent years. This is also the model of Europe described in the Treaties. From his articles, we learn that the States «establish a European Union» (Article 1.1 TUE) and they are always legitimated to exercise, as stipulated in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union, any other competence not attributed to the Union’ (so-called residual clause). A severe vulnus of the system that the EU tried to overcome, without success, through governance systems

Commissione Affari costituzionali, Camera dei deputati, lunedì 4 marzo 2024. Audizione resa dal prof. Claudio De Fiores sul disegno di legge C. 1665, approvato dal Senato, recante «Disposizioni per l’attuazione dell’autonomia differenziata delle Regioni

Commission for Constitutional Affairs, Chamber of Deputies, Monday 4 March 2024. Hearing delivered by Prof. Claudio De Fiores on Bill C. 1665, approved by the Senate, on 'Provisions for the implementation of the differentiated autonomy of ordinary statute Regions pursuant to Article 116, third paragraph, of the Constitution'Commissione Affari costituzionali, Camera dei deputati, lunedì 4 marzo 2024. Audizione resa dal prof. Claudio De Fiores sul disegno di legge C. 1665, approvato dal Senato, recante «Disposizioni per l’attuazione dell’autonomia differenziata delle Regioni a statuto ordinario ai sensi dell’articolo 116, terzo comma, della Costituzione