Guaranteeing Afghan citizens’ Right of Movement from Pakistan and Open Borders

The situation in Afghan territory is deteriorating even more.   Reports on the ground of round-ups by the Taliban, in search of those who have collaborated with the West, journalists, activists and those belonging to religious and ethnic minorities (such as the Hazara), are increasing. Even women’s situation, despite the promises made by the Taliban leaders, […]

Discovering the institutions in Europe: the DGII of the Council of Europe

The Council of Europe continues to be the protagonist of our column “Discovering the institutions in Europe”. After having entered into the DGI, we are now going to understand the functions and some of the departments of the DGII, the Directorate-General for Democracy. Once again, it should be underlining the difficulty of summarising and understanding […]

Discovering the institutions in Europe: the DGI of the Council of Europe

Our journey through the institutions of Europe continues, and this time we go inside the Council of Europe, an intergovernmental organisation, as explained in the first part of this section. The Council of Europe‘s mandate par excellence is the promotion of fundamental rights, democracy and the rule of law within its 47 member states. Large […]

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

Ragazzi accolti nel sistema di accoglienza

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

Sistema di Accoglienza

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 […]

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 […]