22 October 2010
European regulators said Friday that a decision on legal action against Italy over the Naples garbage crisis was being held up by the "enormous volume of paper" needing to be studied.
The mafia-linked crisis returned to prominence this week after violent clashes between police and residents over plans to open Europe's biggest rubbish dump in a national park.
An impasse in 2007 and 2008 saw tens of thousands of tonnes of untreated waste pile up, and the European Court of Justice earlier this year criticised Italy, saying it had no adequate system for waste disposal.
But asked on Friday when Brussels would act, Joe Hennon, a spokesman for Environment Commissioner Janez Potocnik, said it was difficult to put a time limit on infraction proceedings, because of "the enormous volume of paper" that experts have to "study and analyse." The process is "continuing," he said, but the EU executive had still to decide if it was "unsatisfied" with information provided by Rome.
The Italian government began emergency talks on Friday after dozens of people were injured during running battles with riot police wielding truncheons and firing tear gas.
Source: Breitbart.
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The eurocrats are shitting in their pants for the mafia and haven't got the balls to do anything about this situation. Besides, they're not unlike the mafia themselves; unelected, corrupt, wasting money, using coercion and force to get what they want, appointing family and friends to useless overpaid jobs and positions... sounds like a mafia to me.