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A “Neglected Appendage”: Reflections on the Difficulties of Victim Protection in EU Law

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The paper examines the progress EU law made in the recent years in order to strengthen the position and the rights of the victim in criminal proceedings. The topic is crossed with multilingualism, and the present work, after detecting the factors that, until now, prevented the victim to exercise an effective role, indicates how a recent directive could help to overcome them.

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  1. 1.

    See OJEU C 113 of 18.4.2012, pp. 56–61.

  2. 2.

    Benenviste’s (1971) comments, from Problemi di linguistica generale, Il Saggiatore, Milan, 1971, are quoted in Altieri Biagi (2012), p. 19.

  3. 3.

    Report COM(2004) 54, ibidem, § 2, sub-art. 2.

  4. 4.

    Pagliaro (2010), p. 41 ff.

  5. 5.

    Pagliaro (2010), ibidem.

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EU:

European Union

OJEU:

Official Journal of the European Union

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  • Pagliaro A (2010) Tutela della vittima nel sistema penale delle garanzie. In: Rivista italiana di diritto e procedura penale, No. 1, p. 41 ff

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Gaeta, P. (2014). A “Neglected Appendage”: Reflections on the Difficulties of Victim Protection in EU Law. In: Ruggieri, F. (eds) Criminal Proceedings, Languages and the European Union. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37152-3_15

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