Berlusconi's war on rubbish

The Slovenian daily Delo considers the problems facing Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi with the rubbish crisis in Naples: "Berlusconi promised the city would be clean by the end of this month, and that the waste incineration plant would be ready by the end of the year. ... The prime minister who is wrestling with judges in Rome over a ban on police and judical wire tapping is fighting in Naples with the reality faced by all Italian governments in the last twenty years. Every so often the criminal underground, the Camorra, demonstrates who is really in charge in Campania when mountains of waste pile up on the streets. The Mafia makes a fortune transporting industrial waste from the north of the country to Naples, which is why the city's trash so frequently cannot be removed."

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