http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20170802-104703 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-opinion-of-advocate-general-bot-in-taricco-ii-seven-deadly-sins-and-a-modest-proposal/ The Opinion of Advocate General Bot in Taricco II: Seven “Deadly” Sins and a Modest Proposal Bassini, Marco Pollicino, Oreste eng 2017-08-02 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Constitutional Identity Italian Constitutional Court Taricco Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 The wind of populism is blowing across Europe and courts (including constitutional and supreme courts) are not immune therefrom. Within this context, the enforcement of the constitutional identity clause to contrast the application and, sometimes, the primacy of EU law would be a powder keg waiting to be lit. In the latest act in the Taricco saga, Advocate General Bot in his opinion in Taricco II does nothing to defuse it – on the contrary.