Europocket News 28.01.09

Posted on: Febrero 9, 2009

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Stakes are high. Rock my boat. The Berlusconi Way. A matter of innovation. Little Green men wanted.  

Stakes are high   

Freedom fighters or power hungry coalition? Since its creation by middle class students from Tehran University in 1965, the People’s Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI) have been prone to much controverse. With a marxist yet liberal approach based on Islam –that’s a lot of paradoxes to put in a single sentence- they fought against the oppressive regime of the Shah of Iran and that of Ayatollah Khomeini. They fought ideologically, but sometimes with very drastic methods to say the least : bombings, kidnappings, alledged assassinations… The Mujahedins renounced violence in 2001 and is now under Massoud Rajavi’s wife leadership, Maryam Rajavi.
Since 2002 the group was on the EU list of banned terrorist groups. However the European Court of Justice is about to remove it from the list, provided that european foreign ministers agree with the decision taken last monday, and this isn’t done yet : France has appealed to the court, claiming to have proof that the group is involved in terrorist activities. Nevertheless it won’t make the information public… At stake : the diplomatic relations between the EU and Tehran and the willingness of Iran to build nuclear weapons.

http://www.euronews.net/en/article/23/01/2009/eu-terrorist-list-may-drop-iranians/

Rock my boat 

We now take a look at Italy and more precisely at the island of Lampedusa. Though the tiny piece of land may have some gorgeous landscapes, it’s more famous for its overcrowded detention centre for illegal immigrants, also known as “boat people”.On the island, squashed over 25 km square, live 6000 inhabitants. 1800 immigrants are crammed in a detention centre designed to contain 850. You can imagine the conditions in which they live ; besides they claim suffering ill-treatment by the italian authorities. For these reasons, the detainees forced open the gates of the centre and marched out to Lampedusa town hall last sunday.The government in Rome did order the construction of a second centre, but this time the inhabitants of the island feel strongly against it, arguing that they don’t want to be “Italy’s Guantanamo Bay” and that they can’t cope with the growing flow of immigrants. I quoted this before from a TV program interviewing an African immigrant in France, and I’ll quote it again : “If the developped world doesn’t come to our countries to help, we have no other choice than crossing the sea with the hope of a better life there”.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/4332592/1000-immigrants-break-out-of-detention-centre-on-Italian-island-of-Lampedusa.html

The Berlusconi Way

Berlusconi’s jokes : yet another typically italian issue… Surely they stem from a good intention, you know, laughing things off a bit, distract our attention from his government’s wherabouts… But sadly, they provoke a scandal and outrage almost everytime… Last one on the record : “The army can’t guarantee the safety of the women because ‘we would need as many soldiers as there are beautiful girls in Italy – which we will never manage’. Sounds like a compliment right, but poor italian prime minister got the timing wrong… Yep the pun slipped out while Italy is trying to fend off raising figures of sex crimes.He smartly made up for it by carrying out his usual policies, namely posting militaries all over the place in order to serve and protect the people, and toughening up laws on how to deal with illegal immigrants, since the served and protected italian people blame them for Italy’s decadence.Good thinking Prime Minister, surely your political actions will never spark controversy and outrage the way your jokes do.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1127494/British-woman-latest-sex-attack-victim-Italy-Berlusconi-sparks-outrage-pretty-girls-comment.html