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Europe: in brief (2)

01 May 1993

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Italian prisons overcrowded: The prison population in Italy increased by a third last year to 47,588. The Italian government has agreed to hire more guards so that it can re-open closed prisons to ease the overcrowding problems. Times 6.4.93.

German-Polish agreement: on 7 May Germany and Poland signed an agreement by which Germany will pay 75 million dollars to Poland in 1993/4 to ensure that measures to send back refugees from its borders are applied.

Greek identity cards: 22 April - The compulsory inclusion of religion on Greek identity cards was again debated by MEPs in the European Parliament, with a resolution being adopted which calls on the Greek government to end the practice. Greece is the only EC country to include reference to religious faith on identity cards.

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