Sovereignty lost, constitutional identity regained

The process of supranational integration still suffers of ambiguity and ambivalence: on the one hand, sovereignty is waning, and, on the other, we assist – almost as a sort of replacement - at a blooming of identity and identity-related issues. National identity is best construed as constitutional identity and such factor causes the opportunity and the need for testing the very identity clause in courts, both EU courts and national judiciaries, thus introducing into the process an “invitation to struggle”.