The paper aims at trying to read some peculiar features of European monetary integration through (and in spite of) the Courts, which stand out most clearly through the comparison between the experience of the German Federal Constitutional Court and that of the Italian Constitutional Court. In detail, if the Court of Karlsruhe has explicitly taken a position, on two occasions, on the compatibility with the Grundgesetz (GG) of the Unconventional Monetary Policies adopted by the European Central Bank (ECB) to tackle the Eurozone crisis, the Court of Rome, for its part, has remained completely silent with respect to the new role assumed by the ECB, even when the latter seemed to go beyond the narrow limits set by the Treaties.
Moving within these frameworks, the paper intends to investigate the actual reasons behind the different approaches followed by the two bodies of constitutional justice in the face of the advancement of common monetary policies
