Le nuove competenze penali dell'Unione Europea al vaglio dei principi di extrema ratio e di offensività

The work relates to the new EU criminal competences, as regard to the principles of “harm” and ultima ratio of the criminal law. Through the analysis about the environmental criminal law, the fight against child pornography and the protection of the EU financial interests is possible to find an irregular approach, in which those essential principles are not always respected . The conclusion of the analysis is that it will be necessary in the near future to work with greater intensity in order to lay a solid foundation in the construction of the European criminal policy, without which a European criminal law does not even seem desirable.