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Italy: Renate Weber, MEP: The European Commission must take the Italian Government to the European Court of Justice
01 July 2008
Press statement (pdf)
"The recent statements of Italy’s Minister of Interior, Roberto Maroni, regarding a plan to fingerprint the Rroma ethnic population from the Italian Peninsula, represents a new violation of the fundamental human rights and a new defiance from a high-rank Italian official against the European Union and the values it was build upon, as well as against the European legislation."