Newsgroup: it.politica
Titolo: Washington Post: l'Italia si oppone alle leggi antiterrorismo

Only Italy Rejects EU Plan
Measure Would Ease Anti-Terror Efforts
By Sarah Delaney
Special to The Washington Post
Saturday, December 8, 2001; Page A18
ROME, Dec. 7 -- The Italian government came under intense domestic and
international pressure today for vetoing a proposed European Union-wide
measure designed to facilitate prosecution of terror-related crimes.
For the second day, European cabinet ministers meeting in Brussels failed to
reach the required unanimity on the measure, which would create a common
arrest warrant in the 15 EU states for 32 crimes deemed pertinent to
anti-terrorism efforts. Calling it too broad, Italy alone rejected the
measure, which was drafted after the Sept. 11 attacks.
"The Italian position is completely unacceptable," German Interior Minister
Otto Schily declared, Reuters news service reported. Proponents said Europe
risks losing its credibility in the war against terrorism if it does not
adopt the measure.
In Italy, leaders of the opposition to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's
right-of-center government said they feared the refusal would isolate their
country. "The government should quit creating problems for Italy in Europe
and internationally on a position that is incomprehensible," said Francesco
Rutelli, leader of the opposition Margherita group, on state-run RAI
television.
Berlusconi's critics also suggested that the government was trying to
protect political allies and possibly Berlusconi himself, who as a
businessman had frequent brushes with the law on financial matters and
currently faces legal problems in Spain over dealings involving the Spanish
television channel Telecinco in the 1990s.
"Berlusconi and his friends must fear some foreign judge," said Massimo
D'Alema, a former prime minister with the opposition center-left coalition,
on RAI.
Government leaders denied those charges, saying the goal was to protect the
rights of Italians. Italy is "working on the fight against crime, against
terrorism and delinquency and we do not have other political ends," Interior
Minister Claudio Scajola said at a news conference in Brussels. "It is
against all truth to say that the Italian position is tied to the personal
position of anybody."
The proposed measure would allow authorities in one EU country to execute an
arrest warrant issued in another country, generally making extradition
easier.
The Italian government has objected to including crimes such as fraud and
corruption. It contends that the list should be limited to such offenses as
terrorism, organized crime, drug trafficking, trafficking in human beings
and sexual abuse of minors.
Before he became prime minister, Berlusconi was convicted of tax evasion and
illegal payoffs, but the convictions were overturned. He has long said that
he was persecuted by a segment of the Italian judicial system linked to the
political left. He announced earlier this week that he would push for broad
changes in the judiciary that opponents said would increase government
control of prosecutors, compromising their independence.
The government was already being criticized for a law passed two months ago
that makes it more difficult to use evidence, primarily in financial crimes,
that is obtained from Switzerland. Such evidence is key in the trial of
Berlusconi's friend and lawyer, Cesare Previti, on charges of bribing
judges.
And earlier this week, Carlo Taormina, an undersecretary in the Interior
Ministry, was forced to resign after commenting that Milan investigators who
pursued Berlusconi before he became prime minister should be tried and
sentenced themselves.
EU negotiations were continuing. Supporters said they hoped the proposed
measure would be ready for approval by a meeting of EU heads of government
at Laeken, outside Brussels, Dec. 16 and 17.
© 2001 The Washington Post Company
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Il concetto di progresso dev'essere fondato nell'idea di catastrofe. La
catastrofe è che tutto continui come prima. Essa non è ciò che di volta in
volta incombe, ma ciò che di volta il volta è dato.
                         W.Benjamin

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Sono già alla guerra civile gli idioti. E sareste anche capaci di
farla, non so con chi, invece di attendere il regolare svolgersi della
legislatura.