VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE EUROPEAN UNION. PRESENT AND FUTURE OF EUROPEAN DIRECTIVE
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE EUROPEAN UNION. PRESENT AND FUTURE OF EUROPEAN DIRECTIVE

Summary/Abstract: Until now, the European Union does not have a common legislative framework on gender and domestic violence, despite the fact that 50 European women die each week as a result of this problem, that the pandemic and the internet have led to a proliferation of VAWS, and the legislative efforts and economic resources used to a lesser or greater extent by the member states. On March 8, 2022, the European Commission sent to the European Parliament and the Council the Proposal for a Directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence. The present article intends to analyse this proposal, starting from the need and opportunity of a joint effort, the European and international context with reference to the process of ratification by the EU of the Istanbul Convention, the legal basis that allows the intervention of EU, the content and the scope of the new directive. This should help understand the assumptions and challenges of the first common framework of the EU on this matter and the modifications that the text could undergo during the legislative process, to reach a more ambitious regulation within the limits of subsidiarity and proportionality specifics to the European construction.

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