Abstract

Moving from the analysis of the CJEU case law on the scope of application of the Charter of fundamental rights, the essay seeks to reconnect the judicial responses of the Italian Constitutional Court (ICC) on dual preliminarity to the principled reaction to the enlargement of the CJEU jurisdiction. In doing this, the ICC relies on the recources of legal pluralism in order to promote a more structured relationship between catalogues of rights, that are called to interact (and to be jointly enforced by national judges) whenever an internal act is not fully determined by EU rules. In this way, a peculiar form of constitutional pluralism is displayed, according to which the loyalty to EU law is not questioned by the necessity to promote its recasting from the inside of domestic legal systems