Scholarly contributions and commentary on the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum and its implementation in Italy, most recent first. The titles and sources of the contributions are in Italian. Do you know of a contribution we should include? Write to us.
Questione Giustizia, Leggi e istituzioni · 29 September 2026
Marco Gattuso
Advance publication of paragraph 1.2.1 of Part II of the Manuale del diritto di asilo (Pacini), updated to the Pact and Decree-Law 100/2026. The editor reconstructs the transition to “a common procedure” under Regulation (EU) 2024/1348 and highlights its two lines of development: on the one hand the new guarantees — free legal counselling entrusted to a person rather than to information material, independent monitoring, the non-derogable nature of the interview, identification of vulnerabilities even during the procedure or before the court —, on the other the multiplication of special procedures. It falls to the judiciary to keep guarantees and constraints in balance, also by relying on the continuing case law of the Court of Justice on Article 47 of the Charter.
Court of Cassation, Office of the Massimario and of the Court Roll — Report No 47 · 28 September 2026
Martina Flamini
Second part of the thematic report of the Office of the Massimario on Decree-Law 100/2026 converted by Law 145/2026 (the first, Report No 35 of 25.06.2026, was limited to the appeal in cassation and to the Court's jurisdiction over the new measures). The report reconstructs the whole framework of the domestic implementation of the EU Pact, read also in the light of the first decisions of the specialised divisions and of the Court of Cassation: authorisation to reside in a specific place and judicial complaint, the new “risk of absconding”, detention under Articles 6 and 6-bis of Legislative Decree 142/2015, alternative measures, the three stages of making an application, accelerated and border procedures, manifest unfoundedness, subsequent applications, the right to remain and authorisation to remain, the new procedure under Articles 35-bis and 35-ter of Legislative Decree 25/2008, amended Article 32 of the Consolidated Immigration Act, implicit withdrawal, amendments to the Consolidated Immigration Act linked to Regulation (EU) 2024/1356 (screening, apprehension, detention for screening purposes), the residual court-support office (ufficio per il processo) (also in light of Decree-Law 144/2026) and the transitional regime. The key to the reading, confirmed in the opening, is that the Government “appears to have favoured the most restrictive solutions among those compatible with the legal framework deriving from European Union law”.
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Questione Giustizia · July 2026
Salvatore Fachile, Bianca Maurizi, Marina Chetoni
Observations on the margins of field research at the Sicilian and Calabrian borders around the entry into force of Regulation (EU) 2024/1356 (screening) and Decree-Law 100/2026, on the assessment of vulnerability and the information obligations during screening.
Rivista Eurojus, issue no. 3/2026 (advance publication)
Simone Marinai
Reproduces the memorandum filed for the hearing of 25 June 2026 before the Senate Constitutional Affairs and Justice Committees on Bill no. 1939 converting Decree-Law 100/2026. It examines screening, detention for checks and detention; the procedural guarantees and the legal fiction of non-entry in border procedures; appeals, implicit withdrawal and acceleration; Eurodac, interoperability and data protection; the organisation of the judiciary and the clearing of the backlog; the limits of the financial neutrality clause; and the scope for Parliament to intervene during conversion.
Giustizia Insieme · 3 July 2026
Luca Minniti
Analyses the “normative fictions” of the Pact (the presumption that countries of origin are safe, the legal fiction of non-entry at the border, the fiction of a full examination in accelerated procedures, the fiction of implicit withdrawal of the application, the single Member State responsible under Dublin) and the risks that they prove illusory in application.
Diritto, Immigrazione e Cittadinanza, n. 2/2026
Marcella Ferri
Examines, within the framework of Regulation 2026/464, whether the principles of the CJEU judgments in CV and Alace/Campelli on judicial review of the designation of safe countries remain valid for the common EU list as well, and the avenues of direct challenge or of a preliminary reference on validity.
Hearing before the Senate Justice and Constitutional Affairs Committees · June 2026
Tavolo Asilo e Immigrazione (T.A.I.)
A comprehensive note of legal observations presented at the hearing by Gianfranco Schiavone and Giovanna Cavallo (Forum/Road Map on the EU Pact), incorporating the points previously raised by Paolo Bonetti. It challenges the abuse of emergency legislation in breach of Article 77 of the Constitution — given the two years granted for implementation and the parliamentary examination already under way on A.S. 1869 — the absence of any consultation, and the widening of the scope of administrative discretion from which automatisms arise that are incompatible with the fair individual assessment of applications, invoking the doctrine of counter-limits.
Hearing before the Senate Justice Committee · 25 June 2026
Luca Perilli
In the informal hearings on Decree-Law 100/2026, the President of the VII Civil Section of the Court of Brescia highlighted the shortcomings already present in the mandatory border procedures — bound to worsen with the decree, which imposes three distinct proceedings (including validation of detention within 48 hours) — in view of the approximately 16,000 border procedures estimated for Italy in the first year of application.
Hearing before the Senate Justice Committee · 24 June 2026
Francesca De Vittor
Memorandum of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan on the constitutional lawfulness of the decree, both with regard to the constraints of the Constitution and to the international obligations that operate as a benchmark under Articles 10 and 117 of the Constitution. It starts from the abuse of the power to legislate by emergency decree in breach of Article 77 of the Constitution, noting that the regulations and the directive of the Pact expressly provided two years for implementation and that the bill approved by the Council of Ministers on 11 February 2026 (A.S. 1869) has in practice been set aside.
Hearing before the Senate Justice and Constitutional Affairs Committees · June 2026
Paolo Iafrate
Observations of the University of Rome Tor Vergata on the alignment of the legal system with Regulations (EU) 2024/1346, 1348, 1351, 1356 and 1358. It quantifies the burden imposed on Italy — over 16,032 applications to be examined at the border in the first year, the highest share in the Union, amounting to 26.7% of the total, and up to 24,048 applications between 13 June and 14 October 2027 — and criticises both the recourse to a decree-law despite two years for adjustment and the heterogeneity of a text that combines immigration with the digitalisation of justice and the reform of the bar examination.
EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy · 23 June 2026
Daniel Thym
A contribution in English on the leading blog for EU immigration law: it reviews myths and realities about “return hubs”, the centres in third countries to which third-country nationals subject to return decisions are to be transferred, envisaged by the new EU Return Regulation intended to replace Directive 2008/115/EC, distinguishing what the regulation actually allows from the representations made of it.
Rivista Eurojus · 22 May 2026
Alessia Di Pascale
Less than three weeks before the full application of the Pact, takes stock of the alignment of national legal systems, starting from the third implementation report published by the European Commission on 8 May 2026: delays and persistent operational, legislative and organisational shortcomings in most Member States, despite the two years granted since the adoption of the acts, alongside some progress, such as the establishment of the first annual solidarity pool for 2026.
Questione Giustizia, Diritti senza confini · 14 May 2026
Tiziana Paolillo
The Public Prosecutor at the Juvenile Court of Genoa examines how the Pact and the Italian implementing bill transform the legal condition of unaccompanied foreign minors: from the shift of competence over assisted return from the juvenile judicial authority to the administrative authority of the Prefect, to the risks of treatment contrary to Article 3 ECHR in mixed placements with adults. The protection of the child, the author argues, cannot be curtailed in the name of managing flows, operating as a genuine constitutional and international counter-limit.
SIDIBlog · 8 April 2026
Fatima Zahra El Harch
Analyses the amendments approved by the European Parliament on 10 February 2026 to the Asylum Procedure Regulation (Regulation 2024/1348), subsequently adopted as Regulations (EU) 2026/463 and 2026/464: the introduction of the common EU list of safe countries of origin and the new definition of safe third country, applicable immediately and not from 12 June 2026. A precise political and legal choice, the author argues, which entrusts presumption with an ever more central function in the European asylum system, restricting access to the right and compressing judicial protection.
Diritto, Immigrazione e Cittadinanza, n. 3/2025
Paolo Bonetti
A substantial essay (84 pages) setting out the complex provisions of the nine regulations and the 2024 directive that make up the Pact, assessing their merits, their lawfulness and the prospects for their implementation in Italy within the constitutional, international and European framework. It describes the Pact as an unfinished reform of the European asylum system, introducing a form of “inverted solidarity” among Member States that is bound to increase the burdens on first-arrival countries such as Italy without addressing the structural dysfunctions of the system.
Rivista del Contenzioso Europeo · 1 October 2025
Chiara Favilli, Luisa Marin
Analysis of the notion of safe country of origin from its origins in EU law through to the case law of the CJEU (CV, Alace and Canpelli) and of the European Court of Human Rights, with a focus on the repercussions in the Italian legal system (disapplication and dialogue between Courts).
Rivista del Contenzioso Europeo · August 2025
Camilla Burelli
First commentary on the judgment of the Court of Justice of 1 August 2025 on safe countries of origin.
Diritto, Immigrazione e Cittadinanza, n. 2/2025
Francesca Biondi Dal Monte
Analyses the new Reception Conditions Directive adopted as part of the Pact, highlighting its spatial and material dimension. Particular attention is paid to the limits on access to the reception system and to the detention of asylum seekers, between the expansion of the grounds for detention and the deprivation of personal liberty as a measure of last resort, with references to domestic law as well.
Rivista del Gruppo di Pisa · 11 February 2025
Paolo Bonetti, Donatella Loprieno, Alessio Rauti, Cecilia Siccardi, Michela Tuozzo
A multi-voice forum on the legal and constitutional questions raised by the Italy-Albania Protocol, in the context of the European policies on the externalisation of asylum linked to the Pact.
Diritto, Immigrazione e Cittadinanza, n. 1/2025
Eleonora Celoria, Francesca Rondine
Analyses the new EU Pact on Migration and Asylum through two interpretive keys: the “exclusion” of applicants for protection through the internalisation of the border and the strengthening of externalisation, and the “disciplining” of their behaviour through mechanisms of behavioural conditionality.
Rivista del Contenzioso Europeo · 26 November 2024
Luca Minniti
Analyses the consequences in the Italian legal system of the CJEU judgment on safe countries, arguing for the disapplication of administrative acts that conflict with EU law.
Diritto, Immigrazione e Cittadinanza, n. 1/2024
Eleonora Celoria, Andreina De Leo
Examines the relationship between the extraterritorial procedures carried out in Albania under the Italy-Albania Protocol and EU law, arguing that a functional link with the procedures conducted in Albania falls within the scope of Union law and must be assessed for its compatibility with European legal standards.