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AKI
| almost 5 years ago
Thousands of Roma Gypsy children and adults will be fingerprinted from Sunday in the Italian capital, Rome, despite strong criticism from European and religious organisations. The Interior Minister, Roberto Maroni, is reported to have proposed that...
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Androscoggin News
| almost 5 years ago
Another man, laden with a backpack and shopping, and probably a tourist, strides purposefully along while a boy reaches into the pocket of his shorts. Both youngsters are pickpockets and both are also almost certainly the offspring of Roma gipsies...
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AKI
| almost 5 years ago
Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi travelled to the southern Italian city of Naples on Tuesday to discuss the city's chronic rubbish crisis with local authorities and to survey the current situation. The Italian leader is believed to be...
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USA Today
| almost 5 years ago
Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi pledged Tuesday to end the garbage crisis in Naples and the surrounding area by the end of July. Berlusconi said during a visit to the southern Italian city that the government is "very close" to signing deals with...
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The Guardian
| almost 5 years ago
Italy's highest appeal court has ruled that it is acceptable to discriminate against Roma on the grounds that they are thieves. The judgment, made public yesterday, comes amid a nationwide clampdown on the Roma community by Silvio Berlusconi's...
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The Financial Express
| almost 5 years ago
subverting democracy The great paradox of democracy is that the political freedom it needs to thrive also gives succour to its enemies. A democratic society must tolerate, up to a point, the activity of politicians whose instincts are fundamentally...
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Ansa
| almost 5 years ago
Catholic weekly Famiglia Cristiana hit out at the religious values of the Italian government on Monday as the furore over a plan by Interior Minister Roberto Maroni to fingerprint all children in the country's gypsy camps rumbled on. ''The 'Catholic'...
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AKI
| almost 5 years ago
Police in the northern Italian city of Verona have arrested eight Roma Gypsies who allegedly coerced their own and other children into carrying out burglaries. The eight suspects are accused of having forced the children to burgle apartments, beating,...
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Ansa
| almost 5 years ago
Police on Monday arrested eight Croatian gypsies on charges of forcing children to commit hundreds of burglaries in northern Italy, adding fuel to an ongoing furore over a government plan to fingerprint all children in the country's gypsy camps.
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Euractiv
| almost 5 years ago
Resentment towards Roma in Italy has grown�following the establishment of many illegal camps in recent years. Some camps outside Naples were even torched by locals.� Some 160,000 Roma are estimated to live in Italy, 70,000 of whom are Italian...
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The Hindu
| almost 5 years ago
Italy’s Interior Minister has touched off a storm with a proposal to fingerprint Roma people living in camps in Italy, including children. The proposal, made as part of a campaign by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s conservative government to crack...
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The Hindu
| almost 5 years ago
The Italian Prime Minister’s majorities in both Houses of Parliament are likely to ensure the bill becomes law, suspending his trial in Milan for allegedly paying a bribe to British lawyer David Mills in return for favourable evidence in previous...
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International Herald Tribune
| almost 5 years ago
In recent weeks, Italian officials have spoken of a "Roma emergency" in big cities, linking crime to the Roma. In Naples, camps had to be evacuated after attackers set huts on fire and angry residents in neighboring areas protested against an alleged...
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Press TV
| almost 5 years ago
The government of Premier Silvio Berlusconi has vowed to step up the fight against illegal immigrants, whom many Italians link to street crime. It has passed measures that make it easier for authorities to expel foreigners, among other things, and...
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Guardian Unlimited
| almost 5 years ago
Nicolas Sarkozy, the French President, is planing to use his nation's six-month leadership of the European Union, which starts this week, to force through a series of controversial immigration measures. The maverick right-wing leader hopes to draft...
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The Guardian
| almost 5 years ago
A democratic society must tolerate, up to a point, the activity of politicians whose instincts are fundamentally undemocratic. Evidence of that is clear in the fact that Silvio Berlusconi is the freely elected Prime Minister of Italy. He is now 50...
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The Guardian
| almost 5 years ago
Brazen, brash, bronzed and breezy, Silvio Berlusconi has reminded Italy and the world that he is back with a vengeance and doing what his critics claim he does best: governing the bel paese in his own interests...Among opposition supporters and in...
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Gulf News
| almost 5 years ago
The Bill now moves to parliament, where Berlusconi's new centre-right coalition has a large majority. It could become law by the end of July if Giorgio Napolitano, the head of state, gives his assent. Meanwhile, the trial in a Milan court of...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| almost 5 years ago
Italy expels 38 Egyptians in immigration crackdown Italy said on Saturday it had expelled 38 Egyptians as part of a crackdown ordered by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government on illegal immigration. In a statement, Interior Minister...
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Uinta County News
| almost 5 years ago
The Italian cabinet on Friday approved a bill that will give Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi immunity from prosecution while he is in office, a move that would effectively eliminate three pending cases against the 71-year-old media tycoon. The...
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ABC 7
| almost 5 years ago
Italy's interior minister has touched off a storm with a proposal to fingerprint Roma people living in camps in Italy, including children. The proposal, made as part of a campaign by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's conservative government to crack...
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Press TV
| almost 5 years ago
If the proposal is approved by both houses of parliament, a serving prime minister can't be prosecuted. Berlusconi's critics have said that the move is the latest attempt by him to shape the law to his own ends. But he insists that it will enable him...
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The Guardian
| almost 5 years ago
Silvio Berlusconi is on course to end his problems with Italy's courts after his cabinet launched a bill yesterday giving him immunity from prosecution while he remains in office. The Italian prime minister's majorities in both houses of parliament...
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Kuwait Times
| almost 5 years ago
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's cabinet approved a bill yesterday to give him immunity from prosecution by Italian courts, which the media billionaire says have persecuted him ever since he entered politics 14 years ago. If approved by parliament,...
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Gulf News
| almost 5 years ago
Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi visited Libya on Friday and held talks with the North African country's leader Muammar Gaddafi. Berlusconi's office said the midday talks on Friday in the Libyan city of Sirte were followed by a lunch with Gaddafi.
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The Daily Star
| almost 5 years ago
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi traveled to Libya on Friday for talks with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi expected to focus on stemming the flow of illegal immigrants to Europe. It was Berlusconi's first diplomatic outing abroad since he...
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Jerusalem Post
| almost 5 years ago
The meeting in the Libyan city of Sirte was "long and cordial," touching on illegal immigration, the Middle East conflict and the Paris summit on the Mediterranean Union, Berlusconi's office said in a statement later in Rome. Berlusconi stressed the...
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News 24
| almost 5 years ago
More than 2 000 tonnes of garbage have accumulated in the streets of Pozzuoli, which could be a tourist gem," said Loren, who is an honorary citizen of the ancient port city that boasts Italy's third largest Roman amphitheatre. "I cannot hold back my...
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AKI
| almost 5 years ago
A Muslim leader in Italy has called for greater protection of foreign minors in the country, in particular those who enter the country illegally. Ahmad Vincenzo, the president of the Muslim Intellectuals Association, said that the debate about Roma...
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AKI
| almost 5 years ago
The top European rights watchdog's chief on Friday added his voice to condemnation inside Italy of the conservative government's plans to fingerprint Roma Gypsies. "The Italian Minister of Interior is reported to have proposed that all Roma,...
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Voice of America
| almost 5 years ago
Download (MP3) Castelfranco report - Listen (MP3) Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government has proposed legislation that would give immunity to the country's top officials while they are in office. The opposition says the bill, which...
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BBC
| almost 5 years ago
Under the measure, still to be approved by both houses of parliament, a serving prime minister cannot be prosecuted. Critics of Mr Berlusconi have said the move is the latest attempt to shape the law to his own ends. But he insists it will enable him...
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Ansa
| almost 5 years ago
A spokesperson for the European Commission (EC) on Friday let slip that a plan by the Italian government to fingerprint the country's gypsy population, including children, would not be permitted under European Union regulations. The spokesperson said...
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EU Observer
| almost 5 years ago
5 CET Italy has found itself under heavy criticism for a proposed crack-down on clandestine migration by fingerprinting Roma individuals, including children, with the European Commission admitting such a move would violate EU anti-discrimination...
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USA Today
| almost 5 years ago
Italy's government proposed legislation Friday that would grant immunity from prosecution to the country's top four officials, including Premier Silvio Berlusconi — drawing immediate accusations that the bill is designed to help the premier in his...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| almost 5 years ago
Mr Berlusconi's previous attempt to pass such an immunity law in his last term, in 2004, was rejected as unconstitutional. But Defence Minister Ignazio La Russa, leaving the Cabinet meeting, said the new version "takes into account" all such...
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Ansa
| almost 5 years ago
The centre-left opposition on Friday said there could be no trade-off between two bills which could protect Premier Silvio Berlusconi from prosecution. They rejected a proposal from government MP Gaetano Pecorella, one of the premier's lawyers, to...
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Ansa
| almost 5 years ago
The government launched a bill on Friday aimed at giving immunity to Italy's top institutional figures while in office. The opposition says it is a move aimed at protecting Premier Silvio Berlusconi from prosecution while the government points out...
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Press TV
| almost 5 years ago
Maroni who is a member of the anti-immigrant Northern League said that the police will now enter Roma camps to fingerprint and photograph the iresidents...The Italian government claims that the so-called census will reduce the manipulation of...
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The Scotsman
| almost 5 years ago
Roma children in Italy as part of a crackdown on crime sparked concern yesterday that it was racist and would treat them like criminals. Roma people are blamed for much of the crime that Silvio Berlusconi's government pins on illegal immigrants...
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The Independent
| almost 5 years ago
The former leader's partners were the notoriously xenophobic Northern League. And, in a pitch designed to pander to the national hysteria over crime, Mr Berlusconi had promised to get "tough" on foreigners, in particular, Italy's 50,000 Romany...
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The Guardian
| almost 5 years ago
The Italian government's plan to fingerprint Gypsy children was condemned yesterday as a discriminatory "ethnic headcount" that insulted the country's Roma population. The interior minister, Roberto Maroni, said the proposal, which would affect all...
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The independent
| almost 5 years ago
Peter Popham reports Friday, 27 June 2008 Fingerprint the lot of them: the idea had the satisfying smack of firm government. Now the Italian government was doing something tough; something long overdue. The Interior Minister, Roberto Maroni, a leader...
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Gulf News
| almost 5 years ago
Premier Silvio Berlusconi came under fire yesterday for his latest attack against the judiciary, in which he said that "politically driven" magistrates are the cancer of democracy. The long-standing battle between Berlusconi and magistrates was...
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Uinta County News
| almost 5 years ago
Thursday praised the willingness of Italy to revise rules that could allow its troops to be deployed temporarily in volatile areas of Afghanistan, the government said. In meetings with Premier Silvio Berlusconi and other top government officials,...
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BBC
| almost 5 years ago
Roberto Maroni, of the anti-immigrant Northern League, said the move would guarantee that those with the right to stay could live in decent conditions. Those without that right, including children, would be sent home, he said. The UN Children's Fund (...
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Chicago Tribune
| almost 5 years ago
Italy has about 2,700 troops in Afghanistan on peacekeeping and humanitarian duties in the Kabul and Herat regions...James Appathurai said. "It seems that Italy is considering reducing restrictions on the movements of their troops within Afghanistan."...
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AKI
| almost 5 years ago
An Italian government proposal to fingerprint all the country's Gypsies, including children, has drawn stern criticism from members of the Catholic Church and from the opposition. Gypsy children whose parents keep them out of school and send them to...
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Ansa
| almost 5 years ago
Children's rights organisations on Thursday reacted angrily to a government proposal to take fingerprints from all children living in Italy's gypsy camps...Vincenzo Spadafora. ''Roma children are no different from other kids, but above all children...
