The Impact of the Financial Crisis on the Constitutional Form of Goverment and Democracy. Some Lessons from Italy

Summary: Introduction. - 1. The theories.- 2. My view.- 3. The decline of contemporary European constitutionalism: «return to the Statuto »?- 4. Impact on parliamentary forms of government. 4.1. Flexibilisation of the system of legal sources. - 4.2. Flexibili sation of the regulation of economic policy. 4.3. Flexibilisation ot the role of the President of the Republic.- 5. Effects on regionalism. 5.1. Flexibilisation of the constitutional division of powers between central state and regions. - 6. The economic crisis and democracy. 6.1. Loss of trust in democratic institutions.