{"id":93051,"date":"2011-05-06T11:24:22","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T06:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=93051"},"modified":"2011-05-06T11:24:50","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T06:24:50","slug":"berlusconi-sends-troops-to-clean-up-naples-trash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/05\/06\/berlusconi-sends-troops-to-clean-up-naples-trash.html","title":{"rendered":"Berlusconi Sends Troops to Clean Up Naples Trash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Italian soldiers will head to Naples to help clean a city that is again filled with garbage despite government efforts to ease the area&#8217;s recurring waste problem, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said Thursday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5h-F7egfuneCBIZNAmBSQK5mM0cZg?docId=CNG.6776cb463cd64db5eee54f8950f3dabf.771\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>AFP reports<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Given the heaps of garbage that have reformed, we have once again asked for the intervention of the military,&#8221; Berlusconi told journalists.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From Monday, 170 of our men will be on the ground with 73 vehicles to allow Naples to again become a civilized city,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Trash troubles in Naples began 17 years ago and Berlusconi earned political points ahead of 2008 legislative elections for promising to finally fix the problem.<\/p>\n<p>A crisis flared up again last November when area dumps were closed after fierce protests from local residents.<\/p>\n<p>Some 3,500 tons of garbage litter the region, with 1,650 of those in the city centre, according to estimates published in April by the Italian media.<\/p>\n<p>The crisis sparked protests in Naples on April 9 and the European Union has warned of heavy fines if the situation is not resolved.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian government has approved plans to fast-track the construction of waste treatment centres and for purchasing incinerators.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Berlusconi blamed local authorities for the renewed infestation, complaining that &#8220;they have not even organized the tender for the two incinerators.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The problem persists partly due to the lack of incinerators and local opposition to the expansion of open air dumping sites.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say it will take at least three years to contruct the facilities required to manage the area&#8217;s abundance of garbage.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Given the heaps of garbage that have reformed, we have once again asked for the intervention of the military,&#8221; Berlusconi&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[26121,26120,26122,26119,21788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}