L'ex Senatore Marco Perduca e Matteo Angioli, membro del Comitato nazionale di Radicali Italiani parteciperanno a Londra al congresso dell'ALDE, il partito dell'Alleanza sei Liberali e Democratici per l'Europa. La riunione di 55 partiti liberali presenti negli stati membri del continente europeo e non solo si tiene dal 28 al 30 novembre e affronterà, tra le altre cose, anche le prossime elezioni europee dove i liberali intendono partecipare con liste transnazionali da organizzare intorno a un manifesto che verrà discusso a Londra nei prossimi giorni.
Radicali Italiani ha proposto due risoluzioni urgenti: la prima riguarda la flagranza criminale della Repubblica Italiana relativa all'amministrazione della giustizia come da decenni denunciato dalla Corte Europea per i Diritti Umani relativa all'irragionevole durata dei processi e il trattamento carcerario. La risoluzione parte dalle decisioni più significative del Comitato dei ministri del Consiglio d'Europa e della Corte di Strasburgo per arrivare alla sentenza pilota adottata nel gennaio di quest'anno, ripresa anche dal Presidente della Repubblica nel suo messaggio al Parlamento dell'8 ottobre scorso. I Radicali chiedono i partiti dell'ALDE di adoperarsi all'interno del Parlamento europeo, dell'Assemblea parlamentare del Consiglio d'Europa e in ogni altra sede competente affinché l'Italia rispetti i propri obblighi internazionali entro la data del 28 maggio 2014 fissata dalla sentenza Torrigiani.
La seconda risoluzione d'urgenza è relativa alla necessità di codificare, da parte delle Nazioni unite, il "diritto alla conoscenza" al fine di garantire la massima trasparenza e conoscibilità del processo decisionale delle istituzioni, a partire dal governo. Il documento parte dallo stallo stallo delle deliberazioni della Commissione Chilcot che in Gran Bretagna sta portando avanti un'inchiesta indipendente sul modo in cui Londra decise di prender parte alla guerra in Iraq. Una serie di veti imposti dalla Segreteria del Premier David Cameron alla Commissione impedisce di affrontare alcuni nodi cruciali della fase finale dei rapporti tra Tony Blair e George Bush.
Di seguito i testi delle risoluzioni proposte:
Resolution on justice
The Alliance of Liberal and Democrats for Europe Party convening in London, UK on 28-30 November 2013
Whereas:
- since 1997 (Resolution DH 336), and in numerous subsequent Resolutions, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has reiterated that «the problem of the excessive duration of judicial proceedings in Italy, by dint of its persistency and scope, represents a concrete danger for the respect of the Rule of Law in that country (see Interim Resolution ResDH(2005)114), and that Italy still has to comply with its obligation under the Convention to solve this structural problem which has given rise to many varied violations of the Convention since the 1980s» [Interim Resolution CM/ResDH(2007)27];
- in the Report on his visit to Italy on 10-17 June 2005, Mr. Álvaro Gil-Robles, Commissioner for Human Rights of the the CoE, stressed that in 2004 «information supplied by the Attorney General in the Supreme Court of Cassation (...) [showed] that nearly 30% of the Italian population [were] waiting for court decisions»;
- on 8 January 2013, the European Court of Human Rights has condemned Italy for the violation of Art. 3 (prohibition of torture) of the European Convention on Human Rights, and has given the Italian State one year (expiring on May 27th, 2014) to put in place «an effective domestic remedy or a combination of such remedies capable of affording, in accordance with the Convention principles, adequate and sufficient redress in cases of prison overcrowding»;
- the persistence of this situation has induced the President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano (pursuant to Art. 87.2 of the Italian Constitution) to address a formal Message to the Italian Parliament on 7 October 2013, in which he recalled the aforementioned ECHR judgement, adding «I trust that you will understand the reasons for which I have turned to you by means of a formal Message to the Parliament, as well as the nature of the issues that Italy has an obligation to address due to mandatory European pronouncements. These reasons and issues relate to such levels of civility and dignity that our Country cannot compromise in the face of unjustifiable distortions and omissions of the policies on justice and prisons».
Calls on
- ALDE and ALDE Members to do their utmost at the European Parliament, the Parliamentary Assembly of the CoE as well as in any other relevant international competent bodies to urge Italy to respect her obligations under International concerning the administration of justice.
- All Member States to recognize and fulfill the requirements set by the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
Resolution on Raison detat
The Alliance of Liberal and Democrats for Europe Party convening in London, UK on 28-30 November 2013
Whereas:
- the publicity of the decision-making progress is a pillar or liberal democracies and constitutes a crucial element of popular participation in the political and electoral processes;
- recent events have shown that the national interest, or "raison d'état", has taken the place of the Rule of Law as well as of the respect for international obligations that single states have vis-à-vis international law;
- it has therefore become pressant to adopt commonly shared norms to clearly identify only a few and clear circumstances in which Governments can keep their decision-making process unknown to the public;
- to address the above-mentioned problems several countries, within and outside the European Union, have adopted legislations along the lines of the so-called "freedom of information" acts. Despite these positive progress, there remains an ample number of situations in which the Executive can block institutional or independent inquiries, such as the two-year delayed British Iraq Inquiry led by Sir John Chilcot and staffed with four more Privy Counsellors, denying access to documents that are considered to be crucial to the investigation or the public debate.
Calls on
- ALDE and ALDE members to coordinate their national and international efforts to promote pieces of legislations similar to the FOIA mentioned above;
- to evaluate the possibility to launch a joint campaign so that the "right to knowledge" concerning the institutional decision making process is codified by the United Nations.
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