Constitutional Rights First: The Italian Constitutional Court fine-tunes its “Europarechts­freundlichkeit”

Only a few days after the Court of Justice of the European Union buried the hatchet in the so-called Taricco saga (reported step by step on Verfassungsblog by Bassini and Pollicino –here, here, here– and by myself here), the Italian Constitutional Court issued its decision no. 269 of 2017 (an English translation of the decision is available here). This decision may inaugurate the most significant shift of its jurisprudence in European affairs since 1984, when the Constitutional Court fully accepted the principle of primacy of EU law and blessed the disapplication of national legislation incompatible with EU law.