Euro Cup 08

Did Italy face off against Romania!?!?


An illegal camp housing Romanians has been dismantled near Rome


EU officials say Italy is acting within its rights provided it respects the union's criteria for expulsion of EU citizens and does not target a group.

Under European law, EU countries can expel EU citizens who pose a public threat or who lack sufficient income.

Italy is deporting some Romanians under a new decree aimed at tackling crime.

"It is possible to expel citizens of another [EU] state if they don't fulfil the [residency] criteria or represent a threat to public safety or public health," EU justice affairs spokesman Friso Roscam Abbing said on Monday.

But he added that "there cannot be a situation of group expulsion or group assessment".

Italy's emergency move prompted Romanian officials to ask whether it violated European law, which allows EU citizens to travel freely across member states' borders.


The Italian decree, adopted last week, allows for the swift deportation of immigrants deemed to be a threat to public safety. It has not yet been approved by the national parliament.


"The Romanian state... will not accept the humiliation of hundreds of thousands, or millions, of people"
- Traian Basescu Romanian president

Romanian Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu will go to Rome to discuss the situation with his Italian counterpart Romano Prodi.

Romanian President Traian Basescu has urged the European Commission to study the Italian decree to see whether it complies with EU law.

Romania is also sending 30 policemen to Italy to help deal with the Romanian cases.

Mr Prodi defended the decree, saying it was "necessary but also just", in an open letter to Italy's Il Messaggero daily.

But he also warned against "criminalising a nation because of the fault of one individual or a minority".

More than half a million Romanians live in Italy - and about 20 have been sent home so far in the new crackdown.

Bucharest has warned against a wave of xenophobia, following an assault on three Romanians by a mob of Italians in Rome on Friday.

The situation, already tense, reached a critical point in late October, when Nicolae Romulus Mailat, a Romanian citizen, was charged with the murder in Rome of Giovanna Reggiani.

Romanian authorities describe Mailat as an ethnic Roma (Gypsy). He had been living in an illegal shanty town at Tor di Quinto on the edge of Rome, inhabited mainly by Roma. Italy demolished the shacks there at the weekend.

More than 1,000 foreigners risk being expelled under the decree, Italian media report.
 
this has been going on since last year ... this is why tomorrow's game will be literal WAR!
 
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This Turkey Croatia is MADNESS. Goes all the way to the second overtime, then croatia scores with one minute left. The game is seemingly over, yet turkey scores in the dying seconds! It's going to pk's now. What an exciting game :Smokin::Smokin::Smokin:
 
Now I hope these underserving Turks get the proper scourging they deserve from the German Panzer Division. :mad:

That will be a game to watch in a Kebap takeaway at the heart of Rostock :lol:
 
Feel the same way Ellestin! That was Croatia's game I cant believe they scored with that little bit of time left.......
 
That will be a game to watch in a Kebap takeaway at the heart of Rostock :lol:

Fuck you! Be glad your safe. This is going to be fucking Bürgerkrieg! (civil war).

If we win: they'll be a bunch of angry dicks for weeks and probably start a riot. If they win: they'll be even bigger dicks for months, and probably burn berlin to the ground. (while yelling: SCHEIß DEUTSCHE! KONKRET!)




it's bad enough already.
 
If we win

Oh does that mean you've embraced German citizenship? Congratulations dude! :kickass:

Otherwise, I do not think it will be that bad, it's only fucking football after all... But, there will definitely be some isolated riots, especially if the game happens to tip on some dubious affair like a referee mistake or something. Then things might turn sour.

At the end of the day it will only be another manifestation of the latent hatred of some migrants for their home country, that only needs the most trivial sparkle to burst the bubble. I can't even begin to imagine how it would be like if France were to play against Algeria in the World Cup semis or something. I would definitely leave the country for a couple weeks.
:rolleyes:
 
I say we, like I would say we for the vancouver canucks. :p

I think it will be bad, it sounded like a combination of a nascar race and saving private ryan last night. FOr hours. But with crys of "Turkeyei" in the background.

Maybe berlin just really sucks, but I expect it to be a fucking nightmare either way. I hate non-turkish-passport-holding-can't-speak-Turkish-or-german Turks. The good ones can at least speak properly.

For RIA: Take your gangster neegers, add an ego the size of the universe, arrogance, worse communication skills (neegars can turn it off, some anyway), and a hatred of everyone not turkish.
 
So how was the Stimmung in Berlin? I guess the events on the field helped keep tempers quite cool. German victory, Turks fanning the flame of hope until the end, great football game overall...
 
@Ellestin - who are you fancying for the forthcoming "Euro Cup" :lol:

I just checked the odds (on a UK betting site) and England and France are joint favourites at 5/1. We have a young and promising side but we always disappoint.
 
I'm more of a rugby guy anyway.

Let's just say that I have lots of fond stadium memories from the 90's-00's at the time where business hadn't quite ruined every valuable aspect like fair competition, exciting European cups anf the prospect of NOT losing ALL the team's prospects at age 18 to some third-rate English side (no offense meant ofc).

Gangsta culture also drove me off but that's not a phenomenon limited to football.
 
I don't support a team in the top division, so I am familiar with the frustration of losing players. I imagine "football culture" is even worse in this country, and it's not something I enjoy or can relate to anymore. I still love the sport though.
 
yeah I loved playing... Training evenings on rain-soaked pitches, the weekend excitement come the match, post-game drinking and stuff...

Were it not for life circumstances I would probably not have stopped playing football at age 22 and would still be goalkeeping for my village in the downmost regional division :)