Scrutiny: European Economic Governance and National Financial Planning: The Italian Case
Author(s)
Date Issued
2024
Type
article
Volume
30
Issue
4
Start Page
339
End Page
356
Journal
Abstract
The aim of the paper is to answer three well-defined questions: (1) Is the planned policy in Italy
the general economic policy or is the economic policy intense in a restrictive sense and coinciding
only with financial policy? (2) Is the administrative activity of economic and financial planning
effective? (3) Who is today the holder of the programming function in substantive terms: the
national or the European legal system? Considering the analysis conducted in this paper, the
Author reaches the following conclusion: the highly substantive binding nature of European
policy acts and the profound embryonic relationship between the European function of policy and coordination and the national function of implementing policy acts make the ownership of the economic and financial planning function intimately shared between the two legal systems.