Cagliari railway station Cagliari railway station Cagliari is the main railway station of the Italian city of Cagliari, the capital of Sardinia. It is owned by the "Ferrovie dello Stato", the national rail company of Italy, and is the most important station of its region. The station is sometimes unofficially named "Cagliari Centrale" and "Cagliari Piazza Matteotti". This second name is due to station's position on Giacomo Matteotti Square. The station was inaugurated in July 1879, as terminus of the central Sardinian line to Oristano, Ozieri and Olbia. In 1893 it was linked to the port for freight traffic. In the late 1980s,
Amministrazione delle Finanze dello Stato v Simmenthal SpA was declared unconstitutional. It referred the question of what to do in a case of conflict to the ECJ. The Attorney General Reischl gave an Opinion suggesting that timing of the Italian law was irrelevant, and EU law was supreme. The ECJ held that the national court had a duty to give full effect to Community provisions, even if a conflicting national law was adopted later. Amministrazione delle Finanze dello Stato v Simmenthal SpA Amministrazione delle Finanze v Simmenthal SpA (1978) Case 106/77 is an EU law case, concerning the conflict of law between a national legal system and European