IL GRANDE BLUFF: TUTELA DEI DIRITTI UMANI E SICUREZZA INTERNA NELL’ORDINAMENTO GIURIDICO ERUOPEO

THE BIG BLUFF: PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTERNAL SECURITY IN THE EUROPEAN LEGAL ORDER. The article aims at dealing with the internal security of the European Union as disclosed and developed by the European Council and the European Commission since March and June 2014. An inter-institutional dialogue that will also led, in the course of 2015, to the adoption of a renewed Internal Security Strategy for the European Union that will focus on terrorism, migrations and transnational crime. In particular, by analyzing these documents, the article proposes a critical approach and review of the connections among the concept of security, certain relevant issues (like, for instance, migration policies, asylum system, international terrorism and transnational organized crime) and the protection of human rights of both European and non-European citizens. It will also highlight and underline the substantially political use of fundamental rights for the sake of protecting and strengthening the EU internal market and the free circulation of workers and goods. Moreover if one looks at European Union attitude and policies, it seems that European institutions are more concerned (and actually willing) about only protecting the European citizens. From this point of view, non-European citizens are only protected when their skills and capacities may be useful to the strengthening and further development of European internal market and economy. Otherwise, they are deemed more as a threat to European values and societies than as human beings in danger to which afford international protection.