Ricerc@Sapienza

With referral order n. 24 of 2017, the Italian Constitutional Court asked the CJEU to explain
the effects produced by its judgment Taricco to the Italian judges, suspecting the violation of some
fundamental principles of the Italian cons titutional order. Our Court already warned the CJEU that, should
the judgment Taricco be interpreted in the sense that the Italian judges are obliged, in order to respect the
European law, to violate those principles, the EU Treaties (the Italian laws executing those Treaties) will be
declared void, by contrast with art. 25 of the Italian Constitution. This order confirms that the constitutional
fundamental principles deserve to be protected by a true constitutional Court and that the CJEU is no such
Court
.