Keywords

• The author identified three key events in recent history: the collapse of the Berlin wall
• the globalization of markets and the shift from industrial production to an economy increasingly led by financial capital. The combination of these events is associated with the crisis of democracy and the decline of the rule of law. The author offers an outline of the ensuing problems emerging in East European countries
• to then focus on Italy
• in his view the country where a particularly regressive process in the sphere of the law is underway