Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-07-07-Speech-1-136"
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"Mr President, today we have yet another debate in Parliament on the way Italy deals with the Roma population. This time the flavour of the month, proposed by the Italian Government, is no less than calling a state of emergency, taking a census of the Roma population, and fingerprinting them before expelling them.
Today I again find myself calling on the Commission and the Council to react. Enough promises: now we want to see the Council and the Commission take concrete action to make Italy comply with EU laws and values. We need an evaluation of the implementation of the EU Anti-Discrimination Directive as we are doing for the Free Movement Directive. We must enforce the integrated approach and speed up the implementation of the EU Roma strategy.
We have all the instruments available but it seems that when it comes to defending civil liberties versus security there is a certain shyness in applying them.
It has been one year now since Italy started devising disproportionate and shocking security measures tainted with brown populism. Now brown seems to be turning to black.
Are they really going to hunt Roma down in Italian streets? Will Europe continue watching as a silent accomplice?"@en1
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