as part of a crackdown on crime

¿"maricones" in English?

When Procrustes looks after you, you're sure to fit in.

1. To protect the children from "exploitation, crime and disappearing."
   
2. It will facilitate inserting children into scholarization programs.
   
3. It's based on a 1939 law still in effect that allows photographic identification of people without documents. (Almost all Rom have documents though.)
   
4. It is only a census.

Most see it simply as ethnic criminalization.

However, it may be noted a similar program was carried out by the "center-left" mayor Rutelli in the late nineties, a so-called census, without much protest outside advocacy groups.

The vote by the EU parliament is on all the front pages and is causing quite a debate. The vote is considered one of the harshest positions adopted towards a fellow state. So much the better.

Maroni's reaction was that in no time the rest of Europe would adopt the same measures.

I believe you're a member of Linke? What does it take to go on the Linke MEP list?

When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done. — John M. Keynes

13. RC B6-0348/2008 - Création en Italie d'une base d'empreintes
digitales dédiée aux Roms  - résolution 10/07/2008 09:30:06

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- [Voted Against]

ALDE: Guardans Cambó

IND/DEM: Belder, Blokland, Coûteaux, Dahl, Krupa, Louis, Tomczak, de Villiers, Wojciechowski Bernard, Železný

NI: Allister, Chruszcz, Chukolov, Claeys, Dillen, Fiore, Giertych, Gollnisch, Hannan, Helmer, Kozlík, Lang, Le Pen Jean-Marie, Le Rachinel, Martinez, Mölzer, Mote, Romagnoli, Stoyanov, Vanhecke, Wise

PPE-DE: Albertini, Andrikien÷, Ashworth, Audy, Bartolozzi, Beazley, Becsey, Berend, Böge, Bonsignore, Bowis, Bradbourn, Braghetto, Brejc, Březina, Bulzesc, Bushill-Matthews, Busuttil, Buzek, Callanan, Carollo, Casa, Casini, Caspary, Chmielewski, Daul, De Blasio, Demetriou, Deß, Deva, Dombrovskis, Dover, Duchoň, Duka-Zólyomi, Ebner, Elles, Fajmon, Ferber, Fernández Martín, Fraga Estévez, Freitas, Friedrich, Gacek, Gahler, Gaľa, García-Margallo y Marfil, Gargani, Garriga Polledo, Gewalt, Goepel, Gomolka, Graça Moura, Gräßle, de Grandes Pascual, Gutiérrez-Cortines, Handzlik, Harbour, Heaton-Harris, Herrero-Tejedor, Hieronymi, Higgins, Hoppenstedt, Itälä, Iturgaiz Angulo, Jackson, Jarzembowski, Jeleva, Kaczmarek, Kamall, Karas, Karim, Kasoulides, Kelam, Kirkhope, Klaß, Koch, Konrad, Kušėis, Landsbergis, Lauk, Lechner, Lehne, Lewandowski, Liese, Lulling, Luque Aguilar, McMillan-Scott, Mann Thomas, Mauro, Mayor Oreja, Méndez de Vigo, Millán Mon, Mitchell, Naranjo Escobar, Nassauer, Nicholson, Niebler, Novak, Olajos, Olbrycht, Oomen-Ruijten, Ouzký, Pinheiro, Pirker, Pleštinská, Pomés Ruiz, Posdorf, Posselt, Protasiewicz, Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Rack, Radwan, Ribeiro e Castro, Roithová, Rovsing, Rübig, Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Sanzarello, Sanz Palacio, Sartori, Saryusz-Wolski, Schnellhardt, Schröder, Schwab, Silva Peneda, Škottová, Sommer, Sonik, Šťastný, Strejček, Tannock, Ulmer, Urutchev, Vakalis, Van Orden, Vatanen, Vidal-Quadras, Vlasák, Weber Manfred, Weisgerber, Wieland, von Wogau, Záborská, Zahradil, Zaleski, Zappalà, Zieleniec, Zvěřina, Zwiefka

PSE: Dührkop Dührkop, McCarthy

UEN: Angelilli, Aylward, Basile, Berlato, Bielan, Borghezio, Boso, Camre, Crowley, Czarnecki Ryszard, Didžiokas, Foltyn-Kubicka, Grabowski, Janowski, Krasts, Kristovskis, Kuc, Kuźmiuk, Libicki, Maldeikis, Masiel, Muscardini, Ó Neachtain, Pęk, Piotrowski, Podkański, Robusti, Rogalski, Roszkowski, Rutowicz, Ryan, Speroni, Szymański, Tomaszewska, Vaidere, Wojciechowski Janusz, Zapałowski

Guardans also voted for the "return" directive.

When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done. — John M. Keynes