Collegio Fratelli Cairoli, Aula Magna
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Presentation of the Book "The future is not a dead end", by Franco Gallo, President Emeritus Constitutional Court

Introduction:

Andrea Zatti

Dialogue with the author:

Franco Osculati, University of Pavia

Fabio Rugge, University of Pavia

With the clarity that comes from a deep legal knowledge, Franco Gallo, President emeritus of the Constitutional Court, guides the reader into some of the issues that most interest the current public discussion. These are issues relating to globalisation, Europe, decentralisation and networks in their relations with the State and its capacity for decision-making, that is, issues on which, often too loosely, The speeches of this critical phase of representative democracy, on which the descriptions of the new political movements insist, are based. On the contrary, it is precisely the approximation, the lack of precision and knowledge, that this book pushes to overcome. Gallo deals with clarifying and reconstructing in their obligatory consequences, even the most critical, the various legal mechanisms, prepared by laws and regulations approved, around the crucial issues of this social moment. For example: how is the balance between social and property rights shifting and how compatible is this shift with constitutional foundations? How consistent is the compulsory budgetary balance with the principles of social justice within our legal systems? To what extent can the market and its rules limit the power of national states to impose taxes, to say the least, on multinationals? What traumas do the principles of subsidiarity and solidarity bear on certain patterns which are now prevalent and which claim to be federalist? Some of the questions that affect our future, which only inadequate awareness makes threatening and unavoidable.