Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Italy's billionaire prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, is pressing ahead with a law to ban the publication of taped telephone calls, after being swept up in a new scandal over his attempts to find parts on state television for budding young starlets.
Morton's Musings (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
ROME - Italian authorities have started fingerprinting tens of thousands of Gypsies living in nomad camps across the country - adults and children alike - brushing aside accusations of racism by human rights advocates and international organizations. Interior Minister Roberto Maroni told parliament this week the move was needed to fight crime and identify illegal immigrants for expulsion, but also...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Interior Minister Roberto Maroni told parliament this week the move was needed to fight crime and identify illegal immigrants for expulsion.
Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Edward Hugh submits: Italian growth is going to be "near zero'' this year amid the worst global financial crisis since World War II, according to Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti earlier today. ``Certainly this is the worst crisis since the war,'' Tremonti said today in testimony before the joint Senate and Chamber budget committees in Rome. ``The effects aren't limited to the financial sector,...
IOL (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
Despite criticism, Roberto Maroni has repeated his commitment.
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
Italy has recalled its ambassador to Zimbabwe in protest at last week’s controversial presidential run-off that saw President Robert Mugabe returning to power for a sixth term of office, APA learned on Tuesday. The Italian foreign ministry Monday night said Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini had ordered the ambassador to Harare to return to Rome for [...]
Anorak News (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
OVER in Italy, Roberto Maroni, the country’s interior minister, plans to fingerprint all Romany children. It’s a repugnant idea, but one the Mail wants its readers to think about and place in context. “Is this proof Italy does need to crack down on gypsy immigrants'” asks the paper’s headline. Readers see a picture of a pickpocket dipping into [...]
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 30/06/2008
ROME - Italy has recalled its ambassador to Zimbabwe for consultations, the Foreign Ministry said Monday. Foreign Minister Franco Frattini ordered Ambassador Mario Bologna home days after calling for all European Union diplomats...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 30/06/2008
Rome - Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said Monday the government would press ahead with plans to fingerprint ethnic Roma, including children - a move branded as discriminatory by European Union officials. Frattini - the EU's top justice off...
The Largest Minority (Free subscription) | 29/06/2008
Silvio Berlusconi’s return to the helm as Italy’s prime minister has seen an unprecendented level of government overbearing. The most startling piece of legislation, since the collapse of Romano Prodi’s center-left government, is a law requiring the fingerprinting of the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my the Largest Minority for full stories, and other great content ]]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 29/06/2008
Editorial: The great paradox of democracy is that the political freedom it needs to thrive also gives succour to its enemies
JURIST (Free subscription) | 28/06/2008
[JURIST] A proposal by the Italian government to fingerprint the country's Roma minority drew fierce criticism from the human rights community and Roma advocates on Friday. Interior Minister Roberto Maroni announced plans on Thursday to fingerprint thousands of Roma children, saying that the process would help to reduce street begging and keep children in school. The plan would also involve fingerprinting...
Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
Wonder what you make of the news that Italy's interior minister has sparked criticism with a proposal that would see police fingerprinting all members of the Roma community living in camps? Roberto Maroni, of the 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....
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
KYOTO — Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura and his Italian and British counterparts agree the Group of Eight should continue to closely monitor North Korea's nuclear program, a Foreign Ministry official said Thursday. Komura met separately with Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini and British Foreign Secretary David Milband in Kyoto on the sidelines of the two-day G8 foreign ministers meeting, which...
Turkish daily news (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini Tuesday hailed the joint Italian-Turkish project for the manufacture of 91 attack helicopters for the
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matucana | 09/06/2008
Did you know that Berlusconi's media imperium has been expanded with one of the major media concerns ( Endemol ) in the world? Endemol was already owner of the Spanish Telefonica. Why didn't we read anything about that in our media? This happened mid 2007. Did you notice that latest years investigative journalists are a dying race? Maybe it's not a bad idea to draw a clear map of the current media...
matucana | 28/05/2008
These are all statements of Silvio Berlusconi himself in the weeks before the 2008 elections. Silvio Berlusconi assures a few weeks before the elections that there is no place in his coalition for persons with a criminal past or with mafia connections (an exception is made for political crimes) A few days before the elections, Berlusconi remembers one of his previous plans: submit judges at regular
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He's the biggest threath to mankind and democracy since Adolf Hitler
I think he IS the mafia and that they are bying their way in into Europe.
Who controls the media, controls emotions like joy and happiness, but also...
en - (not a member) - 25/06/2008