Michele Caianiello | Laura Bartoli | Marianna Biral | Cosimo Emanuele Gatto | Giulia Lasagni | Vanessa Maraldi | Irene Milazzo | Isadora Neroni Rezende | Antonio Pugliese | Alessandra Santangelo
The Cross-Justice research project
Presentation of the book R. Sicurella - V. Mitsilegas - R. Parizot - A. Lucifora, "Principios generales del Derecho Penal en la Unión Europea", BOE ed., 2020
Presentation of the book R. Sicurella - V. Mitsilegas - R. Parizot - A. Lucifora, "Principios generales del Derecho Penal en la Unión Europea", BOE ed., 2020
The paper focuses on the increasing role played by ordinary courts in the implementation of EU law. Since Simmenthal and Costa v. E.N.E.L. judgments, these courts are called upon to set aside any domestic provision in conflict with the directly enforceable provisions of EU law. This obligation, however, may prove problematic with respect to criminal law. Recently, the Taricco affaire has once again brought out this topic, by highlighting that the removal of the inconsistences between the domestic law and the EU law may infringe upon the constitutional principles concerning criminal law. At the same time, the Taricco case has questioned the relationship between the primacy of the EU law and the national threshold of protection of fundamental rights. Such a question needs to be faced in the light of the judgment delivered by the Constitutional Court on 31 May 2018.