IL POTERE NORMATIVO DEL GOVERNO FEDERALE NELL’ORDINAMENTO COSTITUZIONALE DELLA GERMANIA

The present essay discusses the legislative role of the German Federal Government. A number of institutes and normative powers (among which are the agenda and timetable settings, the vetoes, the state of emergency, the state of legislative emergency and the regulatory laws), both direct and indirect, allowed the Bundesregierung to display a fundamental contribution in the law-making process. However, because of the well-known historical events, the Constitutional designers were unwilling for the Government to exert primary legislation powers. The paper - supported by empirical data – aims to investigate how the Government, from being, on paper, a weak player, has become, over the time, a considerable leader in the general legislative policy.