Ruscombe Green (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
A while back I was shocked top hear that Italy's interior minister Roberto Maroni had proposed a policy of police fingerprinting of all members of the Italian Roma/Gypsy Community. Photo: Ruscombe tree I am now even more shocked to learn that according to the Guardian newspaper, fingerprinting of Roma children has already begun. Moreover, Italy's highest appeal court has, in effect, ruled that
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
The Government of Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi has vowed to intensify its crackdown on crime and immigration by going ahead with its plan to fingerprint immigrants and sending more troops on to the streets.
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
A plan to salvage the profitable part of Alitalia will include 3,250 layoffs, Italy's labor minister said yesterday, as key discussions with unions on the future of the bankrupt airline continued. Maurizio Sacconi indicated that jobs would be lost both at the national carrier and at its Italian rival Air One, which is expected to be merged with Alitalia. "Those who have presented the offer estimate...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
ROME (Reuters) - Layoffs at bankrupt airline Alitalia should be less than 5,000, Italy's Labour Minister Maurizio Sacconi said on Thursday after meeting with unions.
Reuters (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
ROME (Reuters) - Layoffs at bankrupt airline Alitalia should be less than 5,000, Italy's Labour Minister Maurizio Sacconi said on Thursday after meeting with unions.
Bush Radio 89.5 fm Newsroom (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
By Mikhaila Crowie 4 September 2008 Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, will depart for Italy today, where she will hold discussion with her Italian counter-part, Dr. Franco Frattini on Saturday. The meeting will take place in Lake Como, north of Milan. Discussion between the ministers will include bilateral political and economic issues and on the situation in Zimbabwe, Sudan...
Inbox Robot: Swiss Reinsurance News (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Robin Hoods riding through Europes fiscal plain Published: September 3 2008 20:19 | Last updated: September 3 2008 20:19 Giulio Tremonti has been called ...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Milan - The Italian government Wednesday issued a ban on Napoli fans attending away games the Serie A side play this season as part of a package of measures designed to curb football hooliganism. Interior Minister Roberto Maroni announced the crackdo...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini spoke about the Georgia crisis on the telephone Tuesday with United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Italian News Agency ANSA said. Frattini told Rice about Monday's European Union summit on Georgia where the European Union pledged to help Georgia recover from Russia's military intervention but stopped short of pressuring Russia other than suspending...
Islam in Europe (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
Rome's conservative mayor, Gianni Alemanno, has sent a goodwill message to Muslims for their holy fasting month of Ramadan which began in Italy on Monday. "I know that Muslims devote this month to God, through fasting. But it is also characterised by a spirit of joy and of celebration," Alemanno (photo) said. "As Mayor of Rome, I send my best wishes to the Muslim community for the sacred month of Ramadan."...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi has apologised to Libya for 30 years of colonial rule and agreed to pay £2.5 billion in reparations.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
A “friendship deal” worth billions of pounds has been signed by the Italian and Libyan leaders as part of a package of investment and reparations for 32 years of colonial rule.
Le Monde diplomatique (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
In Rome, police in battle dress have evacuated Gypsy settlements and prevented children from going to school, and the city's rightwing mayor, Gianni Alemanno, is having fingerprints taken of those who remain. In Milan, Silvio Berlusconi's government has appointed a “commissioner extraordinary for the Roma emergency” and enforced ID checks for people entering their camps. In Naples, the police charged...
Indymedia ireland (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
On 8 april 2008, a few days before the elections, Silvio Berlusconi confirms that the life sentenced gangster Vittorio Mangano, who worked several years as ‘horse keeper’ at the villa of Berlusconi, was a hero. Could it be that this was a message for somebody? In his last interview(19 may 1992), judge Paolo Borsellino described Vittorio Mangano not as a little fish but as the mafia bridge(‘il ponte’)...
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
Layoffs at Alitalia should be less than 5,000, Italy's labour minister Maurizio Sacconi told la Repubblica newspaper in an interview published today.
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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 part of the media section 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...
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...
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' Who has fear dies every day. Who has not, dies only once…’ Judge Paolo Borsellino(RIP) Here is the original article http://www.wikio.com/article/68016393
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