Year XVI -N.10/2000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Francesco Provenzano

The meetings organized to deal with various serious issues turned out to be, to speak in real terms, a total fiasco.

The Genoa meeting on drugs saw the various participants to face each other with their proposals, but in the end nothing was decided.

The Palermo conference on organized crime was all to the advantage of the latter. On that occasion Pino Arlacchi, the UN undersecretary, even declared that Mafia is now defeated.

Arlacchi evidently lives in his own personal reality, which is not even a virtual one, as it is sufficient to enter some Internet sites to realize that organized mafia also exists in this field.

While all that happens, at the Committee of Hygiene of the Senate, Ombretta Fumagalli Carulli, a member of Parliament who has left the Pole with Mastella to enter the Olive Tree coalition, examined, as the undersecretary of the Ministry of Health, the “Forecast-type budget of State for the financial year 2001 and the multiyear budget for the three-year period 2001-2003, approved by the Chamber of Deputies.

(trad. Giorgio Peraldini - Como)