This article aims to carry out an analysis of the first advisory opinion of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) issued last 10 April 2019 in the area of surrogacy and its possible effects in the Italian legal system. ...

Despite European organizations holding normative and monitoring influence over detention-related matters, the situation in national penitentiaries across the EU exhibits great disparities. The failure of national authorities ...

This study focuses on the mutual implications existing between the relationships among legal orders (especially, between domestic and EU law) and those among different institutions, at both the supranational and national ...

In the multilevel system of protection of fundamental rights, the protection of women victims of violence, who are vulnerable persons, is based on the principle of non-discrimination laid down in EU law (Art. 21 of the ...

This article analyzes the steps that Spain is taking on aerospace safety following the criteria of the European Union within the framework of the Common Foreign and Security Policy. Special emphasis is made on the recent ...

Nowadays, the European Union is facing illegal crossing of its external borders by people fleeing wars and unsafe situations, endangering their lives in favor of human traffickers’ networks. In this context, the lack of ...

Mutual trust, even if not established in the Union primary law, is a fundamental principle on which the area of freedom, security and justice is built on. The paper analyses the recent case law of the Court of justice on ...

The UNHCR has provided indications concerning the principles and methods that should be used in establishing the conditions needed for the recognition of refugee status. The UNHCR directions show the centrality of the role ...

The twentieth anniversary of the area of freedom, security and justice (AFSJ) brings to light several transformations with regard to border management, and also several concerns that did not cease to reemerge twenty years ...