New Relationship Models for the Ecclesiastical Law in Europe

The article offers a contribution to the construction of a new church law for Europe. It argues for a renewal of the research tools and scientific knowledge necessary to understand the complexity of the processes under way, in particular following the European Union’s eastwards enlargement. To this end, the study underlines the importance of the database Licodu.cois.it, that provides the legislation and case law of Eastern Europe’s countries. The website helps to reconstruct the constitutional framework and the civil, criminal and family laws on religious phenomenon as well as the main national rules of religious communities in all Eastern Europe’s states. It also allows the legal researcher to understand the historical sequence of the measures that regulate the matters of religious interest, providing information and making proposals for the development of research in the field.