Government's move on reckless lawsuits, but controversy ensues

On the reckless lawsuits comes the government's move. But it is immediately controversial. With an amendment to the European delegation law presented in the European Affairs Committee of the Chamber, the executive has defined the perimeter of the delegation for the transposition of EU directive 2024/1069 on the protection of persons active in public participation (and this is evidently the case of journalists) from manifestly unfounded claims or abusive legal proceedings. Delegation at the same time too vague and, where more precise, unacceptable, oppositions object.

The text of the amendment, three paragraphs in all, does not identify in detail the principles to which the future adjustment intervention must adhere, but, in the only point specified, refers to the need to 'define the scope of matters with cross-border implications'. In essence, the oppositions (the PD Piero De Luca and the 5 Star Federico Cafiero De Raho agree) accuse that on the one hand the intervention is too imprecise, translating into the proverbial 'blank proxy', and on the other hand it circumscribes possible protection measures from the evidently intimidating protections only to cases that present elements of internationality, leaving the problem of more incisive and structural measures completely unresolved.