Over the last few months, a number of Member States have raised the issue concerning EU citizens who have exercised their right to free movement and found themselves destitute in the host country. Some Member States have expelled, or threatened to expel, such EU citizens without taking into account the procedural safeguards acknowledged by the… [Read more…]
September 1, 2010
Last month, 23 July, the Italian Constitutional Court declared inadmissible and unfounded the Italian Government appeal against the Tuscany regional law on reception, integration and protection of third country nationals approved on 9 June 2009. Although the Italian Government appealed alleging that the Tuscany region exceeded its competence, the real reason was that the regional… [Read more…]
October 29, 2009
The Swedish EU Presidency’s proposal for the 5-year programme for freedom, security and justice, most notably the Stockholm Programme, has raised divergent opinions by the Members of the European Parliament. Mr. Albrecht from Greens considered that the Programme contains more and more preventive measures when Mr. Borghezio, Europe of freedom and democracy Group, claimed that… [Read more…]
September 4, 2009
http://meanwhileineurope.blogactiv.eu/2009/09/04/no-news-is-not-good-news/
September 1, 2009
Far from cover letters, resumes, social networks, subjects on which trying to write a worthy post, life seems healthier and not less interesting. A break, at the foot of the Marmolada, hiking on the Civetta, admiring the Pelmo, camping in the wonderful Val Zoldana, made me see everyday struggles from a different perspective. For some… [Read more…]
July 22, 2009
http://meanwhileineurope.blogactiv.eu/2009/07/22/a-tangled-agenda-for-the-libe-commitee/
July 15, 2009
Last week, Antonio Di Pietro, chairman of the Italia dei Valori party and member of the Chamber of Deputies, addressed to the International Community through an advertisement published on the International Herald Tribune. Di Pietro warned the International Community about the risk in Italy to plunge in a de facto dictatorship. The court of Milan,… [Read more…]
July 11, 2009
The day after the implementation of the security package, doubts have been raised from a part of the Italian Government. The problem seems to be the amount of cleaning ladies and nannies who, without a residence permit (and a work contract), would find themselves convicted for being irregular. Two ways to solve the issue have… [Read more…]
July 7, 2009
http://meanwhileineurope.blogactiv.eu The Italian security package: will European Union make a stand? Integration policies at-risk
July 4, 2009
Here we are. The security package has finally been approved by the Italian Parliament. As usual, the critics made by a part of the opposition, NGOs, humanitarian associations and the Church, have not been taken into account. Maroni, Italian Ministry of the Interior, has replied to the criticism that “people who criticise the security package… [Read more…]
May 26, 2011
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