Italy has said it intends to expel citizens from other EU states if they are not able to support themselves, in a move apparently inspired by France’s current crackdown on Roma.
Interior Minister Roberto Maroni told daily newspaper Corriere della Sera on Saturday (21 August) that French president Nicolas Sarkozy – whose recent actions include closing down Roma camps and deporting around 200 Roma to date – is “right.”
The minister, from the anti-immigrant Northern League Party, said that “if anything, it’s time to go a step further” and referred to the mandatory expulsion of EU citizens who do not meet certain criteria.
“Yes, expulsions just like those for illegal immigrants, not assisted or voluntary repatriations. Of course only for those who violate rules on requirements for living in another member state: a minimum level of income, adequate housing and not being a burden on the social welfare system of the country hosting them.”
“Many Roma are EU citizens but do not respect any of these requirements,” he said. But added, when asked if this would be discriminatory, that the policy should apply to all EU citizens and not just Roma.
“If anything, the problem is something else: unlike in France, many Roma and Sinti here have Italian citizenship. They have the right to remain here. Nothing can be done.”
Mr Maroni admitted that previous attempt by Rome to go in this direction were shot down by the European Commission but said he intends to re-raise the issue of automatic expulsions at a meeting of EU interior ministers in Paris on 6 September.
In 2008, the commission threatened Italy with legal action if it went ahead with a decree allowing the expulsion of other EU citizens facing two years of jail. It gave its blessing to a controversial proposal by Italy to fingerprint Roma, however.
Some in Italy have suggested there is a discrepancy between the relatively strong reaction by Brussels to Italy two years ago compared with its muted response to Mr Sarkozy’s policy towards the Roma community.
According to Mr Maroni this is due to an old “prejudice” whereby a policy carried out by a minister from the Northern League, a junior coalition partner in Rome’s right-wing government, is assumed to “violate human rights.”
France
Mr Sarkozy’s government deported around 10,000 Roma to Romania and Bulgaria last year but the current raids against against a planned total of 300 Roma camps come after the French president for the first time expressly linked immigration and crime.
The European Commission, for its part, has said it is monitoring the situation in France noting that any deportation decisions must be proportionate and carried out on a case-by-case basis, with human rights watchdogs already questioning whether these criteria are being fulfilled.
Meanwhile, critics of Mr Sarkozy’s policy have suggested that the Roma will simply return as soon as they are able.
They also suggest that Paris is contributing to a vicious circle due to its decision to maintain until 2014 rules restricting access to the labour market to nationals from Bulgaria and Romania – where the majority of Roma come from – and with it a means of supporting themselves.
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no more pakistanis in the uk they are ruining our country England for English and Germans Swiss Itlaians Northern Europeans only Allthe rest dont fit in and destroy our once great country.
What about white South Africans? :)
We’re of Dutch, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, English and other Western European descent and we share your same values?
If we, romanians faild to integrate gypsies why the “West” doesn’t show us how it’s done, and just go around the problem?! You can’t integrate someone who doesn’t want to be integrated and preferes a nomad, tribal life like the gypsies.
Like it or not, most of the Gypsies nowadays live outside East Europe, in France, Italy, Spain, Germany and so on.
So, don’t put a problem which the entire Europe has on our sholders.
We were accused for years of racism and discrimination against gypsies. Now the same self-righteous countries that accused us practice much more extreme forms of racism and discrimination.
P.S. “Gypsies are NOT Romanians, morons.”
Dear Iulian, white South Africans can definitely sympathise with you!
We had a bad government, it’s true, but staying separate from non-Whites was the reason for apartheid, which everyone in Europe can now understand. It was not nearly as bad as the lying ANC would like to make it out to be. By far the most blacks who died in political violence were killed by other blacks. And despite black claims to the contrary, only 21,000 blacks died during decades of apartheid. Of these, 14,000 died AFTER Mandela was released mainly in clashes between the ANC and IFP in KZN. The other 7,000 died between 1948 and 1990 – more than 50 years.
The British also killed 27,000 white women and children in concentration camps. They created Hitler’s blueprint.
And yet, we are called all sorts of horrible names, which is really ironic, since most of us had nothing to do with government policies and now, they are being worse racists than any of us ever was!
All over Europe, they want to kick out non-Whites and I do support that, but who are they to go around insulting white South Africans?
They created the genocidal situation in South Africa and while some people like from Spain and Italy support white South Africans, many pretend not to see what’s going on or even say it’s deserved. That is NOT true!
So I understand where you are coming from.
After the 1848-56 european revolutions, GIPSIES were freed from slavery all across Europe. But westerners still treated them extremely harsh fact which pushed gipsies east were people were a little more lenient. In more recent times governments of easter european countries were criticized by the west for not integrating these gipsies whose sole occupation has always been stealing, begging and living in shacks. Now, with the accession to the EU of most eastern states, gipsies decided that lifwe is better in the west so here we go-they moved; I strongly invite western governments to put their money where their mouth is and show us how thay can integrate these gipsies, as we have failed to do so. This is a cat and mouse game. The world is globalized and gipsies will go back to France and elsewhere eventually. The only solution for Europe (and America) is to pack up the nonwhites and ship them off to various countries according to their racial profiles. If this is not done Europe will be slowly colonized by the nonwhites. Look at England, one can definitely see the HUGE number of pakies and blacks there. Italy, France is full of algerians, moroccons and north africans, Germany is full of turks. What’s happening? Let’s take Europe back and deport the nonwhites !!!
I totally agree.
And if you’d like the whites from SA there to increase white numbers, most of us would be very happy to oblige.
they are gypsies and not roma.
or is this a new name?
There must be a pocket of Goblins living in Hungary.
Here’s a song to sing while reading:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euDqKM36GoM
He left to rub shoulders with the dross of Canada.
@ Dave:
England is doomed m8. Join the white flight and move to North America or Australia. England was and will only ever be a nation full of shopkeepers.
I left the UK 22 years ago and never been back. From what I hear it’s a total dump and it has got so bad that even the remaining White British don’t even care anymore. Defeated, perhaps?
Is Canada any better???? Hell no! I’ve been there and when I got of the plane I thought that I had landed in India. Furthermore , all major cities in Canada are FULL OF PAKIES! The jews have colonized Canada and now Europe with nonwhite third world country rats. Oh, by the way-I could have moved to Canada but I was disgusted with it; I didn’t wanna live in a country full of brown gipsies, Canada.
:-D Can the governments of France and Italy have a work in the UK’s ear to get shot of the immigrants and asylum seekers claiming benefits here and on the streets begging, we might then get some life saving drugs issued to our own people.
Go ITALY go we support you as well from the WHITES of South Africa. Thank you for supporting the WHITES here as well ….
God bless Italy. :)
Ek stem saam! I agree!
It’s true, Italy does support us:
SA farm murders are ‘serious human rights violations’ – Unrepresented Nations and People´s Organisation annual general assembly in Rome
http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2010/05/farm-murders-serious-human-rights.html
Viva Italia!