SECURITY DECREE BIS: What has been effectively implemented
On October 2018 the Security Decree Bis has entered into force, as strongly required by the former Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini. This Decree has been then converted into law after the polling at the Senate, the outcome of which was a confidence vote (160 votes in favor, 57 against and 21 abstained). In […]
“RIACE MODEL”: What it is, how it has been created and future possibilities
Before October 2 of this year, very few Italians knew the history of Riace, a village in the Calabrian Locride. However, since that date Riace and its mayor, Domenico Lucano, have become well known to everyone, hence we speak now about “Riace Model”. On that date, the first citizen was arrested on charges of aiding […]
THE RECEPTION SYSTEM Second Phase
As stated previously, in this article we are dealing with that reception system phase that could be defined as a “long-term phase”. This phase has been subjected to several critics from the Government itself so that it has added some provisions within the “Security Decree” aimed to largely amend its current discipline. With few simple […]
THE RECEPTION SYSTEM: General Framework
Currently our reception system for those who require international protection is disciplined by the Legislative Decree n. 142/2015, which in turn has implemented the Directive 2013/33/EU on the common procedures for the granting or the revocation of the international protection status. The above mentioned Decree has largely reformed the reception system and the procedures for […]
EXPLOITATION OF MIGRANT WORKERS AND CRIME: There are tools to prevent them but they are not utilized
Few days ago, in the Southern part of Italy another labor boss case was discovered. Thank to the courage of a Senegalese citizen it was possible to vanquish a well-organized criminal context which includes conniving farmers and extra-European labor bosses. Moreover the same people, also had been forcing migrant women into prostitution. The massive problem […]
THE DUBLIN REGULATION: An history studded with modifications and criticisms
On the 15th of June 1990 the Convention determining the State responsible for examining applications for asylum lodged in one of the Member States of the European Communities (as the European Union was called in the past), better known as The Dublin Convention or Regulation, was approved. This document was a fully-fledged international treaty, signed […]