nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/5c6d395e7d9727cd DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 251030s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/5c6d395e7d9727cd doi eng 342 23 Paolanti, Matteo Author aut Italy’s Constitutional Gamble - Democratic Safeguards and Fragmentation Risks in Europe’s First National AI Law Paolanti, Matteo Verfassungsblog 2025-10-30 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On October 10, 2025, Italy enacted Law No. 132/2025 on artificial intelligence, becoming the first EU Member State to adopt comprehensive national legislation complementing the AI Act. This move raises a serious constitutional questions: can Member States successfully navigate the tension between European harmonization and national constitutional identity in AI governance? Or does Italy’s pioneering approach risk triggering precisely the kind of regulatory fragmentation that the AI Act was designed to prevent? CC BY-SA 4.0 AI Act Italy Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/italys-constitutional-gamble/ raw object