http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20200501-133349-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/with-tragedy-comes-farce/ With Tragedy Comes Farce Vosa, Giuliano eng 2020-05-01 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Coronavirus COVID 19 legal certainty Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 The Italian Prime Minister has recently adopted the the so-called ‘Step 2’ measures. They aim to prudently alleviate the severe limitations on personal liberty imposed so far, but result in obvious uncertainty as for what exactly is forbidden – which adds to their slender ties with parliamentary legislation in exposing the legitimacy deficit of the overall crisis discipline. Particularly, the notion of ‘congiunto’ as a person that one can go visit is likely to cause tragicomic, yet remarkable, turmoil.