In its Universal Periodic Review, the UN Human Rights Council criticised the policies of the Italian government and the terms of its “security package”.

Livorno, Tuscany, 8 am: the day designated for the eviction of the “Roma camp” in Via di Levante, a large piece of land that defines the boundary between a large street and cemetery. The land belongs to a private person who has legitimately asked the police to clear the ground by those unwelcome guests.

European Alternatives organizes a new meeting as part of the Salon Europa series of events, which this time will be focused on immigration. With the writer Tahar Lamri and the journalists Eric Jozsef (Liberation) and Gabriele Del Grande (Fortress Europe).

This article analyses the situation of Roma and Sinti in Italy.This minority is probably the most disadvantaged one in Italy,one of the EU countries with the highest number of minorities.The focus lies especially on the current situation under Silvio Berlusconi’s government and the measures it has undertaken against the Roma minority.Do these measures comply with EU law?

The Italian public television network Rai has been strongly politicized since its creation in 1954. The Masonic Lodge “Propaganda 2” was a secret Lodge which became very influent in Italy during the 70s. One of the main goals of the Masonic Lodge P2, was the control of the media. In fact, its leader, Licio Gelli, understood that “the real power is in the hands of the mass media”. European Alternatives has already produced a dossier on the current state of the media in Italy. Today we will try to understand how everything started.

We just published a Dossier on the state of Media Freedom and Pluralism in Italy, concluding that lack of pluralism and evidence of media intimidation in Italy breach the fundamental values of the European Union. The European Institutions have the authority to condemn intimidation of the press in Italy, and potentially to open legal proceedings.

Over ten MEPs have already joined the campaign for the European Parliament to pass a resolution in plenary condemning all attempts of intimidation of the press.

A lack of a European response to the intimidation of the press in Italy poses a direct threat to the right of liberty of expression throughout the European Union, and limits the authority of any European condemnation of censorship in the rest of the world.

Lack of a European response to the intimidation of the press in Italy poses a direct threat to the right of liberty of expression throughout the European Union, puts in jeopardy progress in former Soviet countries admitted into the Union, and limits the authority of any European condemnation of censorship in the rest of the world.

The centre of detention for ‘illegal’ immigrants on the island of Lampedusa has become the most celebrated symbol of the treatment reserved for the « boat people » of the African continent by Fortress Europe. By Gilbert Achcar