Education
Answer the Question
For the third time Irish MEP Cynthia Ní Mhurchú presses the Commission for answers on its conduct and closure of the long-running Lettori case. As a practicing barrister before her election to the European Parliament…
Council of Europe
Troubling questions on a Treaty Injustice which will not go away
Commission comes under pressure to account to parliament for its sudden closure of the long-running Lettori case Irish MEP Cynthia Ní Mhurchu has placed a priority question to the European…
Executive Commission Vice-President Roxana Mînzatu
Education
Commission closes long-running Lettori case
Decision precludes a fifth Court of Justice ruling in a line of litigation which dates back to 1989. 07 August 2025 By Henry Rodgers In a sudden and unexpected about-face,…
Council of Europe
Conflict of evidence in the EU’s longest-running discrimination case
FLC CGIL, the country’s largest trade union, challenges Italy’s claim to the European Commission that it has ended discrimination against non-national university lecturers (Lettori) With a hearing before the Court…
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Education
Parliamentary question, A Third Infringement Case Against Italy for Lettori discrimination
Parliamentary question calls for checks on evidence submitted by Italy in an unprecedented third Commission infringement case for non-implementation of the Lettori rulings of the Court of Justice In an…
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Education
Irish MEP seeks to prise open the confidentiality of the Commission’s long-running Lettori case against Italy
Irish MEP Ciaran Mullooly has placed a probing priority parliamentary question to Commissioner for Social Affairs, Roxana Minzatu, on the conduct of infringement case C-519/23 for the long-running discrimination against…
Europe
An open letter to President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, on the EU’s longest-running discrimination case
ByHenry Rodgers 13 January 2025 DISCLAIMER: Information and opinions reproduced in the articles are the ones of those stating them and it is their own responsibility. Publication in The European…
Economy
EU’s longest-running discrimination case passes to the in-tray of Commissioner Mînzatu
A letter from Gianna Fracassi, Secretary-General of Italy’s largest trade union, FLC CGIL, has brought the high-profile case of the long-running discrimination against non-national university language lecturers(“Lettori”) in Italian universities…
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Italy’s national broadcaster places discrimination against non-national university teaching staff, Lettori, in the spotlight
Last weekend, Rai 3, a television channel of Italy’s national broadcasting service, aired a programme on Italy’s failure to fulfil its obligations as a member of the European Union. How…
Education
Lettori, College of Commissioners duly refers discrimination case to the Court of Justice
Lettori case // Longest-running breach of the parity of treatment provision of the Treaty in the history of the EU nears an end. The College of Commissioners at its meeting on…