Newsgroup: it.sport.calcio
Titolo: CALABRIA SAUDITA MALEDETTA

ECCO COSA FANNO 'STI NDRANGHETANI DI MERDA CON I FONDI EUROPEI
EU funds diverted to Italy's football team
More than �6 million of European Union funds intended for developing the
Calabria region in southern Italy is to be spent on sponsoring the country's
football team.
 
By Bruno Waterfield in Brussels and Nick Squires in Rome
Last Updated: 5:43PM BST 23 Sep 2008
The regional government in Calabria, classed as one Europe's poorest
regions, has decided to reallocate the economic development funds from
building ports to paying for promotional branding during Italy's current
World Cup campaign.
Beniamino Donnici, a Liberal Italian Euro-MP and former tourism minister in
Calabrian government, has asked the European Commission to investigate why
funding meant to help the poor has been diverted to one of the World's most
successful and wealthy football federations.
"This is madness on a scale worthy of the Guinness Book of Records," he
said.
"Why on is this public money being spent on the world champion football team
and not on Calabria?"
Mr Donnici, who has released documents from the Calabrian administration to
back up his claims, has also revealed that included in the cash transfer is
a "testimonial" payment of �398,000 to a charity established by the Italian
footballer Gennaro "Rino" Gattuso.
A member of Italy's victorious 2006 World Cup squad, Gattuso is a Calabresi
and plays for AC Milan, one of the world's wealthiest footballs clubs which
is owned by Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister.
The cash is to be donated to Forza Ragazzi Onlus, a foundation that aims to
provide housing and sports facilities for young Calabresi boys.
Bill Newton-Dunn, a British Euro-MP who headed a European Parliament
Budgetary Control Committee investigation into EU funding in Calabria, said
the affair showed "things are going wrong".
"The European Commission, needs to play more direct audit and control role,"
he said.
"Mr Donnici is a brave man, I hope he is watching his back. We should
support him."
Calabria, one of southern Italy's poorest regions, is also home to the
N'drangheta, one of Italy's most powerful and violent mafia organisations
which has been accused of siphoning off EU regional funding.
A spokesman for the European Commission stressed that Calabria's decision
might fall within EU rules on promoting tourism but insisted that all
funding decisions would be audited and any misspent cash paid back.
"There is a referee at the end of this. He might blow the whistle and hold
up a red card. Or, he might congratulate Calabria on some nice play," he
said.
Agazio Loiero, president of the Calabrian regional government, has defended
the sponsorhip deal as a good one to promote Calabria while raising its
"positive image".
He has claimed that only �1.4 million will go directly to the Italian
national team out of the �6.4 million EU fund, with other cash being spent
on advertising related to the World Cup sponsorship.
Last year, Calabria attracted controversy by spending �4.8 million of EU
funding on an advertising campaign to challenge stereotypes of the region.
One poster showed clean cut teenagers and a slogan: "Underworld? Yes we are
Calabresi."
--------------------------------
Inviato via 
http://arianna.libero.it/usenet/

exciter ha scritto:
si ma perch� m'associ a Gattuso?
Calabria Saudita � un marchio di fabbrica mio ed indica la nostra
ricchezza solare





















-- 
face&Bene
rimudaSirePope
AdoremusComputerLuceInTerraStellare una real�� per far rinascere i morti 
'Nhu� 'nhu� voglio a mamm� & pap� 'Nhu� 'nhu� DNA
questo articolo e` stato inviato via web dal servizio gratuito 
http://www.newsland.it/news
 segnala gli abusi ad 
ab...@newsland.it