Race and the EU

Maybe Ireland was right to slam its door on the Lisbon Treaty and didn’t even realise it. Maybe really nasty issues of race are bubbling away in the EU, as the credit crunch bites, and then as history has always shown, people start looking for scapegoats. I’ll just demonstrate France and Italy, given recent stories; the British Home Office is institutionally racist, so you’re welcome to check the stories I’ve written referring to it for your evidence there. Italy’s repression of the Roma is verging on the borderline terrifying. Whilst the parallels the Independent tries to make with Mussolini and Hitler are probably over stretching the issue, what the new Berlusconi government (where the neo-fascists run free) is doing should concern us all: The Interior Minister, Roberto Maroni, a leader of the rabble-rousing Northern League... [read full story]