Fighting COVID 19 – Legal Powers and Risks: Italy
Tega, Diletta · intR2Dok (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin) · 2020
For obvious reasons, Italy found itself at the forefront of the fight against COVID-19.The leading policies are:• containing and slowing down the outbreak;• boosting up the national healthcare system to assist COVID-19 patients; • supporting enterprises and families against the economic effects of the situation and the ensuing measures.Particularly in the current month of March 2020, Italian authorities have enacted, and gradually intensified and extended, a lockdown on mobility, assembly and economic activities, currently encompassing the entire national territory.Such measures, unprecedented in democratic countries, have met praise by the World Health Organization.From a legal point of view, a vast array of legal instruments has been employed, and some have been crafted for this very occasion (for a complete list, see the references below).We focus here on national initiatives, but also Regions and Municipalities have employed their emergency powers, occasionally creating problems in coordination, e.g.