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| MEDIA HEADLINES 25/02/2009 |
| (2009-02-25) |
| Last updated: 2009-02-26 15:16 EET |
“The Italians have softened their tone as to Romanians,” headlines the daily ADEVARUL, and adds, “The attitude of Italian politicians and media as regards the Romanian community changed after the visit of Romanian foreign minister Cristian Diaconescu”. The newspaper mentions that, before Diaconescu’s visit to Rome, “the intensive and biased coverage by Italian media of recent crimes perpetrated by Romanian nationals had placed the entire Romanian community in Italy under extreme pressure.” The newspaper also quotes statistics intended to prove that the anti-Romanian craze is ungrounded: “According to data supplied by the Interior Ministry, 60.9% of the rapists in the Peninsula are Italian, and only 7.8% are Romanian citizens.”
The newspaper COTIDIANUL hails the fact that “for the first time ever, Romanian ministers are no longer on the defensive in relation to the Italian politicians, who keep making xenophobic remarks and nonsensical proposals as regards the Romanian migrants.” The daily mentions the example of the Italian foreign minister Franco Frattini, who “first asked Romanian authorities to prevent people with criminal records from leaving the country, which infringes upon their freedom of movement, then realised how absurd this would be, and asked authorities to monitor these people abroad, which is equally impossible to do.”
According to COTIDIANUL, it was now Diaconescu’s turn to “set things straight and ask Italian authorities what they do to protect the Romanians who are victims to violence in Italy.” As the newspaper GARDIANUL puts it, Romanians’ life in the peninsula is now “a nightmare.” “Labeled as criminals, the Romanians who work hard for a decent life in Italy handled the situation as reasonably as could be expected, and most of them went through undeserved and unbearable suffering.” “With their cars, homes and stores set on fire, with their children beaten to near death, with the locals threatening to attack and rape their families and with media vilifying them, many Romanians chose to come back home, trading better-paid jobs for safety,” the newspaper adds.
And while the Italian media, quoted by the press in Bucharest, regards the Diaconescu-Frattini talks as “a match ending in a draw, with each minister scoring for his own nationals,” the newspaper ZIUA writes about “unproductive friction in Rome,” and argues that despite the two ministers’ “sharp verbal sparring, crime and xenophobia are yet to be tackled.”
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