Presentation!

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to my presentation. My name is Fabrizio Zolli.

The topic of my presentation today is 'the growing importance of the European Union as a law maker'.

The reason that this topic is useful for you is because it concerns all of us as Italian citizens and E.U. citizens as well.

We are going to talk about 3 things. These are, firstly, globalization and Italian Law, and secondly international organizations. Finally we're going to talk about the Italian situation.
Due to the limited time I have today, just 5 minutes, I'd appreciate it if you would keep your questions until the end. Thank you.

Firstly, globalization and Italian Law.

Nowadays we live in a global world, and globalization has influenced our legal system as well. That means that we can’t examine the constitutional law like we used to do fifty years ago, when the only law makers were the State and partially the regions. Today Italy is a member of E.U., and there are some international organizations that make law – the most important ones are O.N.U. and W.T.O. . When one of these organizations issues a directive, this must be respected by every single nation. .

That's the end of the first point. Now we will move on to the second point, which is about international organizations.

What is the main advantage of international organizations? Obviously supervision. The O.N.U. was born after the Second World War to guarantee international peace, and it has the same function still nowadays. The W.T.O. was born to supervise international trade in order to avoid rich countries growing richer and poor countries growing poorer. .

That's all for the second point.

Finally, the Italian situation.

Italy is getting used to this new context a bit slowly. That’s a problem. Constitutional law needs to be updated, but Italian people aren’t usually up-to-date… For example, some manuals still talk about ‘’the supremacy of the State’’, without taking into account the existence of international organizations. This is why having a good professor is very important!.

That's the end of the final point.

In conclusion, in this presentation my objective was to make you realize that Italian Law is changing because of the existence of international law makers.

I have covered 3 main points, firstly, globalization and Italian Law. Secondly we talked about international organizations. Finally we discussed the Italian situation.

I hope you have found this presentation useful. Thank you. Questions, please?

If there are no more questions, that is the end of my presentation. Thank you.