[Psychosocial risks: policies in Europe]

The essay envisages the topic of psycological risks (PSRs) not only from a strictly legal perspective but also from a more specifically political one. In this reconstruction, the author highlights how the key question underlying the development of the EU regulative system in the field of PSRs does not concern the actual existence of a solid protection basis at hard law level89/391/Eec directive - but rather to the effectiveness of such protection and to the functionality of soft law in ensuring its implementation and detailing its content. The system effects are measured on the transposition at national level of the Agreement of 2007 on harassment and violence in the workplace. As a final result, it revealing several important structural tensions as well as the shortcomings of the Social European project.