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

THE BIG BLUFF: PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTERNAL SECURITYIN THE EUROPEAN LEGAL ORDER. The article aims at dealing with the internalsecurity of the European Union as disclosed and developed by the EuropeanCouncil and the European Commission since March and June 2014. An inter-institutionaldialogue that will also led, in the course of 2015, to the adoption of a renewedInternal Security Strategy for the European Union that will focus on terrorism, migrationsand transnational crime. In particular, by analyzing these documents, thearticle proposes a critical approach and review of the connections among the conceptof security, certain relevant issues (like, for instance, migration policies, asylum system,international terrorism and transnational organized crime) and the protection ofhuman rights of both European and non-European citizens. It will also highlight andunderline the substantially political use of fundamental rights for the sake of protectingand strengthening the EU internal market and the free circulation of workers andgoods. Moreover if one looks at European Union attitude and policies, it seems thatEuropean institutions are more concerned (and actually willing) about only protectingthe European citizens. From this point of view, non-European citizens are only protectedwhen their skills and capacities may be useful to the strengthening and furtherdevelopment of European internal market and economy. Otherwise, they are deemedmore as a threat to European values and societies than as human beings in danger towhich afford international protection.