Anti-poverty measures between supranational and domestic law

Abstract

With regard to recent developments, the article examines, on the one hand, the dynamics of the policies promoted by the European Union to combat poverty and social exclusion and, on the other hand, the parallel dynamics that have been developed in the national legal system, in order to verify their conformity with those European Union dynamics, possible divergences and, if so, their causes and the risks they entail. The research is based on a multidimensional concept of poverty, which is not limited to the economic dimension alone, but encompasses many other difficulties that are obstacles to the full development of the person