Snooping 'unacceptable threat to democracy' says Tajani

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 27 - Snooping on public figures by hacking into data bases is "an unacceptable threat to democracy", Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said at his centre-right post Berlusconi Forza Italia (FI) party's convention near Palermo Sunday, commenting on a huge new Milanese snooping case involving predominantly the Italian business world.
    Tajani also said the practice of publishing police wiretaps to shame people who had committed no crime was "disgraceful".
    In other points, Tajani said the 2025 budget "can and must be improved"; that he was talking directly to Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti and "not the economy ministry bureaucrats"; that FI would not stop in its Ius Italiae (law of Italy) proposal to cut the time immigrant children need to qualify for Italian citizenship from 10 to five years; and that FI was aiming to get 20%, from 8-9% in current polls, at the next general election in 2027. (ANSA).