Italy is increasingly following the direction of extending the culture of arbitration, traditionally used to resolve controversies concerning international commercial transactions. The idea put forward by the International Arbitration Chamber is to use tax benefits and add compulsory subjects to mediation procedures, such as assisted negotiation and arbitration. The aim is to make the parties ofRead more

If your problem is that of not being able to live with your non-EU partner in Italy and you have not yet managed to obtain a residence permit for cohabitation more uxorio for you, this news may be useful. The Court of Modena recently ordered the Municipality of Formigine to register the Indonesian partner ofRead more

Unregistered cohabitation is a stable relationship between two persons. This type of cohabitation is recognized by Italian laws and must not be proven by any official document. The European Union has established that cohabitation can actually be tried by any means because it is not made official by cohabitants. However, in Legislative Decree 30/2007, theRead more

The new European patent and the Unified Patent Court have been discussed for almost twenty years but it is not yet the time for its implementation, even if it has already been scheduled for last November. In fact, despite two implementing decrees of the Italian Government for the establishment of the European patent with unitaryRead more

The rules of the Salvini Decree on citizenship and immigration law are unconstitutional and overwhelming consolidated laws, first of all the principle of non-retroactivity. A new law has effects only on the cases that occur from its approval onwards. The Salvini Decree on security, in matters of immigration law and citizenship, has blocked dozens ofRead more

The non-EU citizen married to an Italian citizen who has started a citizenship practice and who was not answered within 2 years from the forwarding of the application for recognition, has the right to the citizenship Decree. However, the new Salvini Decree on Security extends the dates for the preliminary investigation to define the processRead more

A non-Eu cohabitating partner of an EU citizen can apply for residence permit – despite the two of them not being married – on the ground of the right of family reunification, as granted by the European Union. Among the types of residence permit in Europe, this is based on the family reunification of theRead more

Communication privacy laws Italy Protecting the privacy of minors also involves separated parents. One of the 2 parents may not publish pictures of their child online without the consent of the other. This was established by a recent court ruling in Mantua, which ordered a mother to remove photos of her children from Facebook. The judgeRead more

exercise abuse dominant position  Amazon EU Antitrust authority against the abuse of dominant market position by the large web companies Apple, Google, and Amazon.Read more

Simplified arbitration procedure ICC International arbitration is the most widely used administrative tool to resolve international trade disputes. In international arbitration, in the agreement of the parties, the ordinary judge is replaced by a private arbitrator. The International Chamber of Commerce of Paris is among the most authoritative arbitration institutions in the world and isRead more