LE AUTHORITIES AL TEMPO DEL COVID-19. Riflessioni sul ruolo delle autorità indipendenti: modello in declino o consolidato?

Abstract

The authorities in the time of COVID-19. Reflections on the role of independent authorities: declining or consolidated model? - The essay begins by observing how, under the COVID-19 threat, the key actors seem to be once again the nation
states, more precisely the national governments and their political leaders: in essence what we are witnessing is a sort of “revival of the political”, which inevitably leads the scholar to question the role of independent authorities, that is those subjects characterized precisely  by a condition of detachment or separation from political power. In this sense, the article intends to verify the position in UE of the independent authorities in the COVID-19 emergency by focusing on the complex and problematic relationship between technique and politics in order to analyze the response that the independent regulatory authorities have given to the pandemic crisis.