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Belgians? What do you mean, or is it just an example?
Btw, I don't think you'll find a Belgian who is willing to work for 2 € an hour ;-)
And btw, our minorities (in Netherlands and Belgium) aren"t mainly gypsies, the problem here is the integration of for instance muslims. I think there are much more muslims in our countries than in countries as Czech Republic or Slovakia.
Btw, I don't think you'll find a Belgian who is willing to work for 2 € an hour ;-)
And btw, our minorities (in Netherlands and Belgium) aren"t mainly gypsies, the problem here is the integration of for instance muslims. I think there are much more muslims in our countries than in countries as Czech Republic or Slovakia.
I just want to say, they we dont send them back (whoever)... :-)
(they will have to work, of course :-) )
(they will have to work, of course :-) )
btw... you have problem with that poor part of Belgium Flames or so... tell them, that if they dont like new conditions (which your government/some party wants to make) that they can go and work in slovakia... than they will maybe faster understand necessity of changes :-)
You have Flanders (Dutch-speaking relative rich region in the north) and Wallonia (French-speaking relative poor region in the south), and believe me, it's not that easy as you say it, it is very, very, very, very, very complex.
one small news... :-)
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World's oldest man dies at 114
Walter Breuning was born in 1896 and put his longevity down to eating just two meals a day and working for as long as he could.
The oldest man alive right now is suppose to be Japanese, but that should be really checked! Japan launches nationwide search for centenarians.
Walter Breuning was born in 1896 and put his longevity down to eating just two meals a day and working for as long as he could.
The oldest man alive right now is suppose to be Japanese, but that should be really checked! Japan launches nationwide search for centenarians.
Italian judicial reforms could save Berlusconi
LAST UPDATED 3:31 PM, APRIL 14, 2011
Attempts to streamline Italy’s court system will halt thousands of trials – possibly including Berlusconi’s
ShareA massive new judicial reform appears headed for approval in the Italian parliament, raising the question: is it a long overdue correction of Italy's notoriously slow justice system - or is it tailor-made to rescue the embattled prime minister Silvio Berlusconi from an upcoming legal case.
In fact, it could very well be both: a necessary modernisation that happens also to provide a handy get-out-of-jail free card for Berlusconi.
The head of the national association of magistrates, Luca Palamara, questioned the reform's constitutionality on Wednesday after the bill passed through the chamber of deputies (from where it now goes back to the senate) and called it "a defeat for the state".
The key provision of the new law is to reduce the time that trials take in Italy. Most Italians support this: they are fed up with a judicial system that is inefficient and moves at a snail's pace. There are millions of backlogged civil and criminal trials, which, when they finally get to court, can drag on interminably. Even the European Court of Human Rights has condemned Italy for its court delays.
Berlusconi claims he is being hounded by a partisan judiciary, which has, over the last 17 years, prosecuted him 31 times (24 of those cases were shelved or ended in acquittal).
He currently faces four trials: three over corruption and one over paying for sex with a teenager, the now infamous Ruby-the-Heart-Stealer case.
However, two of the less sexy trials began back in 2006. In one, he's accused of fraud at his Mediaset television company. In the other, he is accused of bribing UK lawyer David Mills - then the husband of Labour cabinet minister Tessa Jowell - to lie on his behalf in court. Mills was convicted in 2009, but the ruling was overturned after the country's highest court ruled that the statute of limitations had passed.
Last year Berlusconi got a temporary reprieve from his legal troubles when his government passed a temporary immunity measure while in office. However the constitutional court recently ruled partially against it, prompting judges to hastily reopen the fraud and bribery trials, and bring the ‘bunga bunga' prostitution trial to court.
If passed, the new law could knock out anywhere from 7,000 to 15,000 trials across Italy, including at least one of Berlusconi's. The Mills bribery trial will almost certainly be dead because the case is due to run until January or February 2012, and the bill would pre-date that by about eight months, ending the trial this summer, before a sentence can be handed down.
And this is the paradox that gets ordinary Italians' angry: the prospect that, by the time summer vacation rolls around, both Mills and Berlusconi could be off the hook, while the victims of the multi-billion-euro Euro Parmalat scandal and the deadly 2007 fire at Thyssen Krupps factory, that killed seven steelworkers, continue to wait in vain for justice.
Critics say that be reducing the statute of limitations, it will be harder to hold large corporations liable for their alleged crimes. (The reform is mostly aimed at white collar crime and does not affect violent crimes and the Mafia).
A key provision of the bill also separates the careers of judges and prosecutors and increases the responsibility for judges who make flawed decisions, leaving liable to civil actions. Judges have cried foul, claiming it is a thinly-veiled attempt by Berlusconi's allies to punish and intimidate those trying to prosecute him.
If the bill passes, Berlusconi could claim his prosecution was revenge for the reform. Meanwhile, everyday government business has ground to a halt in Italy while judicial matters continue to dominate, a fact not lost on the premier's detractors.
"We are not happy about passing days and nights debating Berlusconi's trials, we want to talk about the enormous problems facing this country and for this we are embittered," said opposition leader Pier Luigi Bersani. "This was a step into the abyss."
thefirstpost.co.uk
Really unbelievable! Italian justice is the joke of Europe. Thousands of criminals are free from trial to save a criminal pedophile prime minister. How sick is your government if they are willing to do this ...
LAST UPDATED 3:31 PM, APRIL 14, 2011
Attempts to streamline Italy’s court system will halt thousands of trials – possibly including Berlusconi’s
ShareA massive new judicial reform appears headed for approval in the Italian parliament, raising the question: is it a long overdue correction of Italy's notoriously slow justice system - or is it tailor-made to rescue the embattled prime minister Silvio Berlusconi from an upcoming legal case.
In fact, it could very well be both: a necessary modernisation that happens also to provide a handy get-out-of-jail free card for Berlusconi.
The head of the national association of magistrates, Luca Palamara, questioned the reform's constitutionality on Wednesday after the bill passed through the chamber of deputies (from where it now goes back to the senate) and called it "a defeat for the state".
The key provision of the new law is to reduce the time that trials take in Italy. Most Italians support this: they are fed up with a judicial system that is inefficient and moves at a snail's pace. There are millions of backlogged civil and criminal trials, which, when they finally get to court, can drag on interminably. Even the European Court of Human Rights has condemned Italy for its court delays.
Berlusconi claims he is being hounded by a partisan judiciary, which has, over the last 17 years, prosecuted him 31 times (24 of those cases were shelved or ended in acquittal).
He currently faces four trials: three over corruption and one over paying for sex with a teenager, the now infamous Ruby-the-Heart-Stealer case.
However, two of the less sexy trials began back in 2006. In one, he's accused of fraud at his Mediaset television company. In the other, he is accused of bribing UK lawyer David Mills - then the husband of Labour cabinet minister Tessa Jowell - to lie on his behalf in court. Mills was convicted in 2009, but the ruling was overturned after the country's highest court ruled that the statute of limitations had passed.
Last year Berlusconi got a temporary reprieve from his legal troubles when his government passed a temporary immunity measure while in office. However the constitutional court recently ruled partially against it, prompting judges to hastily reopen the fraud and bribery trials, and bring the ‘bunga bunga' prostitution trial to court.
If passed, the new law could knock out anywhere from 7,000 to 15,000 trials across Italy, including at least one of Berlusconi's. The Mills bribery trial will almost certainly be dead because the case is due to run until January or February 2012, and the bill would pre-date that by about eight months, ending the trial this summer, before a sentence can be handed down.
And this is the paradox that gets ordinary Italians' angry: the prospect that, by the time summer vacation rolls around, both Mills and Berlusconi could be off the hook, while the victims of the multi-billion-euro Euro Parmalat scandal and the deadly 2007 fire at Thyssen Krupps factory, that killed seven steelworkers, continue to wait in vain for justice.
Critics say that be reducing the statute of limitations, it will be harder to hold large corporations liable for their alleged crimes. (The reform is mostly aimed at white collar crime and does not affect violent crimes and the Mafia).
A key provision of the bill also separates the careers of judges and prosecutors and increases the responsibility for judges who make flawed decisions, leaving liable to civil actions. Judges have cried foul, claiming it is a thinly-veiled attempt by Berlusconi's allies to punish and intimidate those trying to prosecute him.
If the bill passes, Berlusconi could claim his prosecution was revenge for the reform. Meanwhile, everyday government business has ground to a halt in Italy while judicial matters continue to dominate, a fact not lost on the premier's detractors.
"We are not happy about passing days and nights debating Berlusconi's trials, we want to talk about the enormous problems facing this country and for this we are embittered," said opposition leader Pier Luigi Bersani. "This was a step into the abyss."
thefirstpost.co.uk
Really unbelievable! Italian justice is the joke of Europe. Thousands of criminals are free from trial to save a criminal pedophile prime minister. How sick is your government if they are willing to do this ...
Croatians convicted of war crimes
Two Croatian military leaders have been convicted of atrocities against Serbs during the break up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, after a trial at The Hague.
Judges sentenced Ante Gotovina to 24 years and Mladen Markac to 18 years in jail for crimes including murder, persecution and plunder. The men helped to plan an operation to retake Croatia's Krajina region and force out all Serbs in 1995. The Croatian government and public have reacted angrily to the verdict. The BBC's Mark Lowen in Zagreb says crowds who had gathered to watch the tribunal's hearing on big screens in the Croatian capital booed and hissed when the judge announced the guilty verdicts. The men are regarded as heroes by many in Croatia. The UN war crimes tribunal cleared a third defendant, Ivan Cermak, of all charges.
Ex-president implicated
Gotovina and Markac were convicted of a range of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed as their forces retook the Krajina region, which had been under Serbian control since the start of the war in 1991. The BBC's Mark Lowen says there were boos and hisses by a crowd watching the sentencing in Zagreb. About 200,000 ethnic Serbs were driven from Croatia in 1995 and at least 150 were killed in a military offensive known as Operation Storm. The fast-paced military operation, ordered by former Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, began with heavy shelling of the area, which forced many Serbs to flee to Serbia. During his verdict, Presiding Judge Alphons Orie characterised the operation as a "joint criminal enterprise" between the military commanders and Mr Tudjman, who died in 1999 while under investigation by the tribunal. Judge Orie said there had been widespread and concerted attacks on the Serb civilian population in Krajina. "The Croatian military committed acts of murder, cruel treatment, inhumane acts, plunder, persecution and deportation," said the judge. Both Gotovina and Markac had played a part in planning and overseeing this operation, the court ruled. Lawyers for both of the convicted men said they would appeal against the verdicts.
Country convicted?
Croatia's Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor said implicating the government in a criminal enterprise was unacceptable. She said the operation was legitimate and aimed at liberating Croatian territory from occupation. "My government will do everything possible within the legal framework to get these qualifications withdrawn," she said. The aftermath of the war is a key issue both in Croatia's domestic politics and its external relations. The EU has made it clear to former Yugoslav republics that they will not be considered for membership until war criminals are brought to justice. Gotovina's arrest in 2005 was considered crucial to Croatia's chances of joining the bloc. War veterans, many of whom turned out in Zagreb to protest at the verdicts, are a powerful lobby group in the country. "All of us have been convicted, including the Republic of Croatia," said protester Branko Borkovic, a former army commander.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13092438
Two Croatian military leaders have been convicted of atrocities against Serbs during the break up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, after a trial at The Hague.
Judges sentenced Ante Gotovina to 24 years and Mladen Markac to 18 years in jail for crimes including murder, persecution and plunder. The men helped to plan an operation to retake Croatia's Krajina region and force out all Serbs in 1995. The Croatian government and public have reacted angrily to the verdict. The BBC's Mark Lowen in Zagreb says crowds who had gathered to watch the tribunal's hearing on big screens in the Croatian capital booed and hissed when the judge announced the guilty verdicts. The men are regarded as heroes by many in Croatia. The UN war crimes tribunal cleared a third defendant, Ivan Cermak, of all charges.
Ex-president implicated
Gotovina and Markac were convicted of a range of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed as their forces retook the Krajina region, which had been under Serbian control since the start of the war in 1991. The BBC's Mark Lowen says there were boos and hisses by a crowd watching the sentencing in Zagreb. About 200,000 ethnic Serbs were driven from Croatia in 1995 and at least 150 were killed in a military offensive known as Operation Storm. The fast-paced military operation, ordered by former Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, began with heavy shelling of the area, which forced many Serbs to flee to Serbia. During his verdict, Presiding Judge Alphons Orie characterised the operation as a "joint criminal enterprise" between the military commanders and Mr Tudjman, who died in 1999 while under investigation by the tribunal. Judge Orie said there had been widespread and concerted attacks on the Serb civilian population in Krajina. "The Croatian military committed acts of murder, cruel treatment, inhumane acts, plunder, persecution and deportation," said the judge. Both Gotovina and Markac had played a part in planning and overseeing this operation, the court ruled. Lawyers for both of the convicted men said they would appeal against the verdicts.
Country convicted?
Croatia's Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor said implicating the government in a criminal enterprise was unacceptable. She said the operation was legitimate and aimed at liberating Croatian territory from occupation. "My government will do everything possible within the legal framework to get these qualifications withdrawn," she said. The aftermath of the war is a key issue both in Croatia's domestic politics and its external relations. The EU has made it clear to former Yugoslav republics that they will not be considered for membership until war criminals are brought to justice. Gotovina's arrest in 2005 was considered crucial to Croatia's chances of joining the bloc. War veterans, many of whom turned out in Zagreb to protest at the verdicts, are a powerful lobby group in the country. "All of us have been convicted, including the Republic of Croatia," said protester Branko Borkovic, a former army commander.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13092438
this might give u some new perspectives...
Libya conflict: Gaddafi 'cluster bombing Misrata'
Abdullah, a doctor in Misrata, told the BBC he had seen evidence of the use of cluster bombs
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Pro-government forces in Libya have been accused by a human rights campaign group of using cluster bombs, which are banned by more than 100 countries.
Human Rights Watch said one of its photographers saw three mortar-launched projectiles explode over a residential area of Misrata, in western Libya.
A government spokesman denied the allegation, calling for more evidence.
New attacks by government troops have been reported in Misrata, the only western city still in rebel hands.
One resident, Aous, told the BBC he had seen indiscriminate bombing and shooting from 0630 (0330 GMT) on Saturday.
"I listened to bombing and shooting everywhere. And I saw smoke going up just a few metres from my house.
"The shooting was random in this area - there are families here. They didn't make a difference between any houses, just shooting."
As well as cluster munitions there have been a number of reports that Libyan forces are using the Soviet-designed Grad rocket system in their bombardment of Misrata.
The Grad, which launches multiple rockets from mobile launchers, has been blamed for a number of civilian deaths in recent days, including eight people in a bread queue. Reuters news agency reported large numbers of Grads fired into Misrata on Saturday.
A bomblet reported to be from a MAT-120 cluster bomb (pic: Human Rights Watch, 15 April 2011) Unexploded cluster bomblets are often brightly coloured and picked up by children
The BBC's Jon Leyne, in the eastern rebel stronghold of Benghazi, says the Grad is another indiscriminate weapon that - while not illegal - could be even deadlier than cluster bombs.
Launched from a truck containing up to 40 rocket pods and able to fire some 40 rockets in quick succession, Grads blanket a wide area and are said to have been used against the port of Misrata, a key link to the outside world for those in the city.
This is urban warfare of the nastiest kind, our correspondent says: on the one hand you have the rebels fighting the government and on the other government forces appear to be randomly shelling and using sniper fire in civilian areas.
There were also reports of renewed fighting near the eastern town of Ajdabiya, where rebels are regrouping on the road to the oil town of Brega.
'Appalling'
Releasing photographs of cluster munitions, New York-based Human Rights Watch said three projectiles had exploded over Misrata's el-Shawahda neighbourhood on Thursday night.
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Analysis
image of Jeremy Bowen Jeremy Bowen BBC Middle East editor, Tripoli
The latest revelations and the continuing suffering in Misrata are a reminder that the Nato mission - to protect civilians - is not working sufficiently.
The Western countries leading the intervention have some thinking to do. The UK, France and the US have said very clearly that they want Col Gaddafi out, but they are going to have to work out how to make that happen.
They may want to go the UN Security Council, but it is inconceivable at the moment that they would get a stronger mandate calling for regime change and allowing them to use their ground troops, even in a training capacity. Resolution 1973 allows the air operation but it very specifically forbids a foreign military occupation. There have have been some discussions about other ways of using troops, perhaps to safeguard humanitarian convoys, perhaps the sea routes into Misrata. But that would take some discussion.
First discovered by a New York Times reporter and inspected by HRW researchers, the object photographed is said to be an MAT-120 120mm mortar projectile, which opens in mid-air and releases 21 "bomblets" over a wide area.
"Upon exploding on contact with an object, each submunition disintegrates into high-velocity fragments to attack people and releases a slug of molten metal to penetrate armoured vehicles," HRW noted.
HRW said the projectile it had examined had been manufactured in Spain in 2007, one year before Madrid signed the international Convention on Cluster Munitions.
Steve Goose, HRW's arms division director, said it was "appalling" that Libya was using such weapons, especially in a residential area.
"They pose a huge risk to civilians, both during attacks because of their indiscriminate nature and afterward because of the still-dangerous unexploded duds scattered about," he added.
HRW said it could not determine whether any civilians had been hurt by the cluster bombs which "appear to have landed about 300 metres [yards] from Misrata hospital".
The international Convention on Cluster Munitions, adopted in Dublin in 2008, prohibits its 108 signatories from using cluster weapons because of the threat they pose to civilians.
Libya is one of the states which has not signed the convention, along with countries such as the US, Israel, Russia and China.
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How a Cluster Bomb Works
* The cluster bomb is dropped from a plane or fired from a rocket launcher.
* Models differ but some can contain up to 200 bomblets
* The canister starts to spin and opens while in mid-air, spraying the bomblets across a wide area
* Each bomblet is about the size of a drink can and contains hundreds of metal pieces. When it explodes, it can cause deadly injuries up to 25m (80ft) away
* Cluster bomb ban comes into force
Libyan government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim denied cluster bombs had been used in Misrata.
"I challenge them to prove it," he told reporters in the capital Tripoli.
Referring to inspections by humanitarian groups, he said: "To use these bombs, the evidence would remain for days and weeks, and we know the international community is coming en masse to our country soon. So we can't do this, we can't do anything that would incriminate us even if we were criminals."
There was no immediate comment from Spain, a signatory to the cluster munition convention, on the provenance of the bombs.
No reinforcements
Rebels in Misrata have been holding out against attacks for two months and UK Foreign Secretary William Hague has stressed that Nato needs to act swiftly to prevent a "massacre" in the city.
He said on Friday that Nato had been constrained by the need to avoid civilian casualties but had probably prevented the city from being overrun by Col Gaddafi's forces.
On Friday a meeting of Nato foreign ministers in Berlin ended without a commitment from non-participating nations to contribute combat aircraft to the alliance's military operations over Libya.
The US, UK and France said in a joint statement that the threat to Libyan civilians will not disappear while Colonel Muammar Gaddafi remains in power.
However, Russia has suggested Nato has been exceeding its UN Security Council mandate to protect civilians.
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everybody here know /just dont want to say it loudly/ that if EUorNATOorUSA didn't involve in this conflict, there could be peace already and simple live /no war/ now, no bombs, no kills, no fighting in war named "oil for new guns"....
but.. a lot people here can have different opinion... Libyan people need democracy and no matter how much death it will cost /just bad guy are dying of course /.
now they are going to get democracy, so instead of fact that number of dead people is raising every day it is happening just for good thing.
Let's look in Iraq, they have now that miracle democracy from US and most of people are happy and live in state where are no deaths, no attacks, just please and happy....
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if you dont understand my post..just skip it ..... today I have "hard" day :-)
but.. a lot people here can have different opinion... Libyan people need democracy and no matter how much death it will cost /just bad guy are dying of course /.
now they are going to get democracy, so instead of fact that number of dead people is raising every day it is happening just for good thing.
Let's look in Iraq, they have now that miracle democracy from US and most of people are happy and live in state where are no deaths, no attacks, just please and happy....
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if you dont understand my post..just skip it ..... today I have "hard" day :-)
everybody here know /just dont want to say it loudly/ that if EUorNATOorUSA didn't involve in this conflict, there could be peace already and simple live /no war/ now, no bombs, no kills, no fighting in war named "oil for new guns"....
You are unbelievable. Really. You really believe in a "And they lived happily ever after." story with Khadaffi?
Really?
You're sure?
You are unbelievable. Really. You really believe in a "And they lived happily ever after." story with Khadaffi?
Really?
You're sure?
it depends on what is happy live..... everybody is not satisfied with their government, me too... also most of us inEU are not happy with governments. PIGS countries are really make my bullet happy :-(.
but tell me... how much deads would be there till this day, if NATO would not involve ? I think much less.. no matter if there remains Kaddafy or "iraq version" of democracy...
What do you think....? What about would be the situation in Libya now, if NATO would have not involved ????????
but tell me... how much deads would be there till this day, if NATO would not involve ? I think much less.. no matter if there remains Kaddafy or "iraq version" of democracy...
What do you think....? What about would be the situation in Libya now, if NATO would have not involved ????????
If NATO were not involved, Gadaffi's forces would have decimated protestors by aerial attacks and ground warfare. Without NATO Gadaffi would have crushed the rebels.