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A while ago, when i was at my most angry about the mistreatment of the Rroma people, I wrote to the European Commission and politely asked what their stance was on the Italian politics. This is their answer...


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I'm very glad that the EC doesn't accept the italian idiocy. That in itself is very important. What happends on the ground is another matter. But thanks for the letter!

Italy bans street prostitution

The Berlsuconi Government have issued a new set of laws aiming at fighting trafficing and prostitution, Swiss Sonntagszeitung reports.

According to the new proposal men and women engaging in street prostitution will be sentenced to up to 15 days or prison/ 150 000 EUR fine.

The report adds that a third of Italy´s 70 000 prostitutes are foreigners.

I'm still looking for more concret information in the case that interests us - Berlusconi´s register of "vagabonds", which in reality means roma people, and how the European Commission deal with it. But I will pass by some background information about italy and roma people as well...

Hardly relevant I

In stead of working I tried to find some more information about the EU-Italy_Tomanian Gypsies problem, without very much luck.

However, here are two links in german:

An article from Austrian Kurier 8 sept, about the mayor of Roma being quoted positively about fascism and Benito Mussolini.

Film Maker Matteo Garrone has made a film (not documentary however) about the situation in napels, a city ruled by the Camorra. The film is called Gomorrah. I only found the trailer in Italian and German. Let's all hope for Gomorrah's season to end...

OK... back to work...

Europan Commission aggrees with Italy to register Roma families?

If you followed this blog, you might have read my earlier posts about the social situation in italy involving mainly Romanian romas and Berlusconi cops...

The Berlusconi have issued a set of laws aimed at limiting illegal immigration to Italy. These include the collection of finger prints, personal data, the possibility to expell EU-citizens for so-called security reasons, the possibility of detaining EU citizens for 15 days and the restriction of asylum seekers´ freedom of movement.

These means not only go against what I presume a broad majority of world citizens accept as human rights, but also the EU treaties, and Italy has gotten their share of anger from different Eu institutions.

However, today I read on a romanian news site, that the EU Commission and the Italian state has reached an agreement on a somehow less offending version. It´s horrible. EU is a system where the higher levels of political power has more power than in traditional parliamentary system. The only reason I could see for accepting that is that these higher levels shopuld stick to law and morale also in times when paliamentary politicians might be prone to compromises them in change for votes. In times like these for example...

I promise to dedicate this blog to this subject for a while ahead, and give you links in different languages as I found them.

P.s. Swedish readers might draw a parallell to the Swedish "FRA" law for supervising messages sent over the Internet, that also was accepted in a slightly less offensive version. FRA is bad, but this is worse...



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