Enti locali di area vasta e principio costituzionale di economicità

Abstract

The essay focuses on the need to aggregate the municipalities in larger bodies and suitable to perform certain tasks, trying to demonstrate how the drawing of these maps of aggregation cannot be arbitrary, but has to respect constitutional rules, such as first the principle of economy. The essay highlights the need to coordinate this principle with the vertical subsidiarity one, to allocate functions and services to the various local authorities and to avoid the proliferation of instrumental bodies. It also emphasizes the relationship between economic and political responsibility, as an instrument available to citizens to obtain the effective fulfillment of fundamental rights, through the exercise of public functions and services.