nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/01c8322f191f5d39 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250522s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/01c8322f191f5d39 doi eng 342 23 Citino, Ylenia Maria Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-3804-9673 Addio, Rule of Law? - A Critical Comment on Italy’s Trajectory on Security, Surveillance, and Freedom Citino, Ylenia Maria Verfassungsblog 2025-05-22 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Fears are spreading that Italy, too, may be joining the club of EU Member States dismantling the rule of law. In this post, I will discuss three episodes that indeed lay bare a set of enduring constitutional tensions: the “Striano gate”; the “Paragon affair”; and the enactment of a Security Decree. While the actors involved are not the same in each story, the constitutional stakes are analogous: the proper use of coercive powers in a democracy and the traditional dichotomy between freedom and state authority. So, are we witnessing early signs of democratic regression? CC BY-SA 4.0 Democratic Backsliding Demokratie [Motiv] Giorgia Meloni Italien Italy Meloni Parliamentary Democracy Security Decree democracy surveillance (DE-588)4396255-5 gnd Demokratie [Motiv] (DE-588)4027833-5 gnd Italien Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/italy-democratic-regression/ raw object