The Bagnoli case between constitutional order and Supranational dimension

Abstract

The subject of this work is the study of the Bagnoli steel centre. Starting from a historical-legal reconstruction of the event, we will proceed with an inductive method to subsume the main facts into the constitutionalist categories involved in order to observe their affirmation, changes and torsions. Through the history of Bagnoli, we can observe the affirmation of the democratic-social form of State, its consecration in the 1948 Constitution, but also the level of suffering of this paradigm with the affirmation, at a supranational level, of an idea of market economy based on the competition law and the prohibition of State aid, which is difficult to reconcile with a model like the Italian one based on public intervention in the economy. Nevertheless, the Union's response to the recent health emergency, as well as the recent and persistent conflict in Ukraine, could express a change of pace. In this respect, Bagnoli may be a useful starting point to continue reflecting on the need for a European public law of the economy