Court of Justice 20 October 2009, C-265/08 (Federutility and Others v Autorità per l'energia elettrica e il gas.)

Opinion of the Advocate-General Opinion of the Advocate-General I – Introduction 1. In the early days of the welfare state, certain areas of the economy were set apart from the free market philosophy with the aim of reducing the distance between the ‘dominated lebensraum (living space)’ and the ‘effective lebensraum ’.