Law

Something very peculiar is currently going on behind the scene of this blog. My fork of bloggart has been taken and adapted to make a new website dedicated to a TV show, Skins. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The work has been commissioned by a not well specified “Skins Writer” entity to ScholisTech. I don’t like it So far, so good. It feels good to know that someone appreciates your work, isn’t it? ...

Only a country like Italy could do something stupid like this. In english: The Tuscan city of Lucca has imposed a ban upon foreign eateries in its historic centre, in a move described by critics as racism. The city council voted to deny new licences to bars or restaurants with a ‘non-Italian style of cooking’ within the boundary of the Renaissance walls circling the city centre. Tuscany’s centre-left regional government warned against discriminatory measures “introducing hidden forms of ‘gastronomic or culinary’ racism.” “The defence of quality is one thing, discrimination is another,” said Paolo Cocchi, the regional councillor for commerce. Lucca’s town hall defended the new rules, saying they were meant to safeguard the city’s cultural identity and that they were also applicable to sex shops, fast food restaurants and take-away pizza parlours. “The ban targets McDonald’s as much as kebab restaurants,” said a spokesman. The spokesman also said that the four kebab shops already in the city centre would be allowed to continue operating as normal, while, “as an invitation, not an order", all foreign restaurants in the city will be encouraged to include at least one typical dish from the region. CP/The Roman Forum 06 February 2009 Photo:Flickr/IthakaLB, An Italian enjoying typical cuisine ...

Sono sceso dall’aereo il 16 Dicembre… e da allora sto monitorando, a modo mio, quello che sta succedendo in questo mio paese natio. Crisi Mondiale A sentire le radio e le TV "maggiori", l'[it:Italia] e' una specie di oasi felice in mezzo ad un [it:Europa], un [it:Mondo] in piena crisi Economica e Finanziaria. L'unico sentore della crisi ce lo danno con i commenti (tagliati e riadattati) dei cittadini per strade e centri commericali: Spenderò di meno per regali, li farò solo a parenti e amici stretti… ma il panettone/capretto/pandoro/cibo-usanza non mancherà Questo rincuora l’Italiano Medio. Gli fa pensare «… tutto sommato non va così male…». E questo diventa il leitmotiv. Poi però mi ricordo che all’aeroporto di [en:Stansted] ho comprato un bel numero speciale dell’Economist, “The World in 2009”, e leggo. Leggo. Leggo. Non ci trovo traccia di ottimismo. Ma di sano “pessimismo riflessivo”. Non ci sono articoli fatalisti. Non ci sono dichiarazioni da fine millennio: solo coscienza che il 2009 non sarà un anno facile, e che i Leader di tutti i paesi devono intervenire ORA sulle economie per rallentare il più possibile la Spirale Recessica. ...

There is this article from the Financial Times that I would like to link here but, because it needs a registration (that I strongly support you to do), I quote it here: Italian party seeks to block new mosques By Paul Bompard in Rome Published: August 25 2008 02:24 | Last updated: August 25 2008 02:24 Italy’s Northern League, the populist, xenophobic, sometimes separatist movement that is a key component of Silvio Berlusconi’s governing coalition, has proposed new legislation which would effectively halt construction of new Islamic mosques. The bill, which the League’s chief of deputies Roberto Cota is expected to send to parliament next week, would require regional approval for the building of mosques. It would also require that a local referendum be held, that there be no minaret or loudspeakers calling the faithful to prayer, and sermons must be in Italian, not Arabic. Chances of this being approved as it stands are slim, since it clashes with a number of constitutional rights and there was no immediate support from either Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party or from the ex-fascist National Alliance. But there has been cautious support from the small, ultra-Catholic UDC party, and the proposed anti-mosque legislation undoubtedly reflects widespread feeling among Italians that some defence against a rapidly rising Islamic presence is needed. At present, the Muslim population in Italy is estimated at 1m, with 258 registered mosques. The Northern League, which theoretically favours the secession of northern Italy from the centre and south, won more than 8 per cent of the vote at the April general elections, and has always trumpeted defence of national values of the northern Italian “race” as the natural product of its homeland. Without giving details, Roberto Maroni, the rightwing interior minister from the League, also said in April that “nomads” – as Italians call the Gypsies, although most do little roaming – who were not Italian citizens and did not meet conditions to stay would be deported to their “countries of origin”. The League has capitalised on a wave of xenophobia, of fear of crime committed by foreigners, and of preoccupation with illegal immigrants, which did much to help the Berlusconi alliance win the elections. CopyrightThe Financial Times Limited 2008 ...

Interessato a seguire ancora un pochino la vicenda di Rete 4 e della MAXI MULTA che la Corte di Giustizia Europea ci fara’ pagare, ho letto questo post di [it:Travaglio |Marco_Travaglio] (dal blog Voglio Scendere, su cui scrivono anche Pino Corrias e Peter Gomez): Europa 7: vieni avanti decretino. Quello che mi va pero’ di riportarvi e’ la Lettera che Emma Bonino scrive all’Unita’ come risposta, e la contro risposta di Travaglio: La lettera di Emma Bonino e la mia replica Pubblico la lettera che Emma Bonino ha scritto al direttore de l’Unità in seguito alla pubblicazione dell’Uliwood party di ieri sul caso Europa7, e a seguire la mia replica. ...