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The paper analyses the decision n. 269/2017 by the Italian Constitutional Court and the complex obiter dictum which limits the power of the italian judges of not application of internal norms in conflict with the norms ( self executing) of the Charter of fundamental rights of European Union, when the internal norms break at the same time the European Bill of rights and the Italian Fundamental Charter of 1948. The decision n. 269 is not consistent with the Jurisprudence of Luxembourg Court and weakens the process of building an european ius commune on the basis of the values, principles and rights of the Nice Charter. A stronger application of the Charter is, today, a rational and realistic way to defend the “European dream” as sketched in the “Ventotene Manifesto”.