L’ordinamento UE ai tempi della crisi energetica e della transizione ecologica: prove generali di una nuova politica economica europea

The various crises that the European Union is facing have forced the EU institutions to adopt a series of exceptional measures. Nonetheless, the state of "permacrisis" increasingly necessitates, as a consequence of such legislative acts both provisional and definitive, for these same institutions to proceed with a new and different balancing of the primary legal interests relevant from time to time. What appears to emerge is, on one hand, a greater protection of social rights across different economic sectors; on the other hand, a reconsideration of the role of the fundamental freedoms of the European single market in view of their growing functionalization in favor of other interests of social utility. In this perspective, the energy policy – more than other sectors – appears today symptomatic of a European economic policy increasingly inspired by a social market economy.