http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20161212-114652 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/after-the-italian-referendum/ After the Italian Referendum Joerges, Christian eng 2016-12-09 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 EU reform euro crisis eurozone Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 So much was at stake for Italy, its political class and its economy, and for the European Union (EU) and its member states in the country’s failed referendum on constitutional reform. In the EU, Germany is a particularly sensitive case. The relations between Germany and Italy are a focal point in Europe. They used to be in an asymmetric, albeit comforting, equilibrium.