LA FIDUCIA NEL MERCATO NELLE NORMATIVE DELL'UNIONE EUROPEA

Starting from a theoretical framework rooted in Michel Foucault's reflections in his work The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, this thesis aims to investigate the role of law as a device for producing trust in the neoliberal context. Starting from a genealogical reading of European Union regulations, from the founding treaties to sectoral disciplines on competition, fiscal policies, digital, health, environmental and labour governance, the research aims to show how the law operates not only as a limit or external regulation, but as a performative infrastructure capable of shaping behaviours and forms of economic subjectivation. Trust thus emerges as a normative and institutional construction, not simply a sociological correlate. In the concluding part, the research explores concrete examples and theoretical frameworks of alternative legal grammars, outlining regulatory perspectives for a post-neoliberal Europe, in which trust is functional to market efficiency, but also to cooperation and social justice. energy communities, social cooperatives, job placement clauses and instruments for the shared administration of common goods are analysed as paradigmatic cases of a law that enables non-market subjectivities and produces trust through inclusion and solidarity.