In recent years, a number of Italian civil society organisations have started to exploit the principle of the primacy of European law over national law by filing appeals before national courts and using the preliminary ruling procedure to go as far as the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) in order to reaffirm the centrality of the principles underpinning the European legal system, including the pr. [...] In this specific case, as our respondents pointed out, the judges played a very important role in adopting a homogeneous approach in the face of the inconsistency between the Italian and European systems, making the Community rule prevail over the national one in the name of the right to equal treatment of workers in the European area: “The odd thing was the homogeneity of decisions by judges, whi. [...] The age-old issue of the limited scope of EU competence in the area of media freedom allows member states to prevent the involvement of European institutions in protecting one of the pillars of liberal democracy, which is the foundation of the EU itself. [...] 36 Media Freedom Rapid Response The transnational protection of fundamental rights: 21 experiences of Italian civil society in the European civic space In the present study, we considered as a case study the annual consultations on the new Rule of Law Mechanism, one of the pillars of liberal democracy and one of the founding values of the EU (Box 2). [...] This report, which also featured contributions from a number of Italian organisations, offers an independent analysis of the situation of the rule of law in Italy and 18 other EU countries with the intention of drawing the attention of political decision-makers and public opinion to a number of issues that are crucial for the respect of the rule of law and the functioning of European democracy44.
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