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Ursprungligen postat av Ankdammsman
Okej, det behövs alltså fler sopförbränningsanläggningar.
Berlusconis agerande har i alla fall löst den akuta sopkrisen, vilket är mer än den förra regeringen klarade av. Låt oss ge honom kredd för det och se om han har en långsiktig plan.
Sådana grejer som effektiva sophanteringssystem kräver stora investeringar och tar åratal att organisera. Ingen i den italienska ledningen (notera att Silvio satt en mandatperiod i början av 2000-talet) verkar dock ha brytt sig förrän man stod knädjupt i skiten. Jag undrar om det kan finnas ett samband med invandringspolitiken här...?
Vad Silvio
borde ha gjort är att tvinga fram åtgärder som minskar mängden sopor (tex. införa straffavgifter) samt tvinga italienarna att sortera och återvinna mer av avfallet. Eftersom sådant skulle vara
impopulärt, valde han den enkla vägen att helt enkelt öppna nya soptippar, som också de såsmåningom kommer att fyllas upp. Att lösa problemet skulle vidare ha innefattat att ta itu med maffian (
1,
2), korruptionen och satsa på att utveckla sophanteringen på nationell nivå.
Se även dessa länkar:
European Commission sues to force Italy to take out the garbage
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The suit, filed before the European Court of Justice, is aimed at pressing Italy to take more serious action against a problem that has enraged southerners, embarrassed national pride and influenced recent national elections. If the court rules against it, Italy could face substantial fines, more than a dozen years after Naples faced the first of its regular trash crises.
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But, over many years, the problem has been difficult to tackle, in part because politicians have been reluctant to take on the organized-crime groups that have dumped refuse — some of it toxic — for many years.
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The trash crisis is one of several serious problems, ignored for years by Italy's paralyzed political class, that are worsening as well as bumping up against European regulations. One issue is Italy's high public debt, over the European Union ceiling of 3 percent of gross domestic product.
Notera nu att Italien (och andra liknande länder) har fått och även fortsättningsvis får pengar av EU för att fixa sina länder. Istället ägnar man sig åt sådant här:
EU funding goes to what critics call 'bimbo school'
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In a nation where barely clad veline (closest translation: bimbos) populate virtually every television program and where variety and game shows are the major form of TV entertainment, the school aims to turn these young Italians into quiz show hosts, showgirls, letter turners and performers. The school is backed by $1.5 million from the European Union and has caused surprisingly little stink, except among a small circle bemoaning what it sees as further evidence of a national epidemic of brainless and sexist TV programming.
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The European Union dispenses billions of euros in "structural" grants to financially distressed areas in Europe, and the Campania region in southern Italy certainly qualifies. Here in Frattamaggiore, a gloomy little town, young people are desperate to escape. In the past decade, the town's population has dropped from 50,000 to 40,000. Unemployment among the young throughout Campania is estimated to be 50%.
But if Campania is short on jobs, it is well stocked with beautiful women, for which the region is famed throughout Italy. So it may be as much the lust for stardom in this celebrity-driven country as dismal employment levels that drove more than 1,200 young women and a handful of men to apply for the 97 slots in the school when they were announced last year.
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When the school started, the local representative from Parliament, Antonio Pezzella, called the project "incomprehensible" and asked why the EU wasn't funding training in traditional areas such as tailoring instead of "putting on a show." The mayor of nearby Naples was aghast, though the money enriched his region. School officials argue that the entertainment world is a growth business in Italy, and teaching students how to make their way in it is neither demeaning nor sexist.
"These aren't just girls who walk on desks," Giordano says in a reference to the long-running program, Striscia la Notizia— literally "Strip the News." In that show, produced by the television corporation owned by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, two nearly topless dancers prance across the anchorman's desk.
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EU sues Italy over Naples garbage
Babianens poäng: Berlusconi är inte lösningen - han är en del av problemet.
