The non-discriminatory policies of the EU reflect "a governmentalist and uniforming vision of civil society", and represent "the product of pressure by some lobbies". Those words were said to SIR by Marco Olivetti, teacher of constitutional law at the University of Foggia, on the day after the news of the letter of injunction sent by the European Commission to Italy (as well as Latvia and Finland), following a question submitted by a few members of the European parliament on the missed reception of the directive 2000/78CE against discrimination for sexual orientation. The Commission examined the modes through which such directive was received by the national legislations of member States. In the answer to the question supplied by Vladimir Spidla yesterday, it is written: "If the EU believes that the national legislations do not comply with the above-mentioned directive, the EU will take the necessary measures to assure conformity with the subject of the directive"; among those measures, there is the letter of injunction sent to Italy. According to Olivetti, "the non-discriminatory community rules reflect a governmentalist and uniforming vision of civil society, imaging a flattening of the behaviours expressed within it, in favour of models defined in an abstract way on European level, and what’s more, through acts adopted by following non-democratic procedures". (To be continued)” “
