Abstract: Despite the failure of the ambitious project of the European Constitutional Treaty, the new millennium has indeed heralded a new constitutional era for the European Union, focussed on the protection of fundamental rights. Since the approval of the Charter in December 2000, fundamental...

The paper analyzes the criteria used by the Italian Penal System to oppose Islamic terrorism. After explaining the dichotomy between the “American way” versus the “European way” in fighting this phenomenon, the author takes position in the debate regarding the so-called Criminal Law of...