Her kan jeg f.eks. nævne Italiens tilfælde, hvor vi italienske statsborgere blev udsat for de andre medlemsstaters ydmygelse og utilfredshed, bare fordi vores regering forsøgte - men ikke havde held med - at få indflydelse på EU-konventionens indhold, så den ikke gjaldt for visse forbrydelser, som ligger vores ministerpræsident meget på sinde. Han bliver - "sjovt nok", som Milanos statsadvokat Borrelli ville sige - selv retsforfulgt i Italien for netop disse forbrydelser.
The Italian situation is one example: our Italian citizens had to suffer humiliation and dissatisfaction on the part of the other Member States just because our government attempted, without success, to make the scope of the European Convention subject to certain conditions, excluding from it certain offences which are of great importance to our Prime Minister, who - by pure chance, as the State attorney for Milan, Francesco Saverio Borelli, would say - happens to be on trial in Italy for precisely these offences.