18/12/2001 (Agence Europe) - Neil MacCormick (Scottish National Party and member of the European parliament Green/EFA) invited two litigants in a case of discrimination against foreign readers in Italy, to a press conference in Strasbourg on Tuesday. David Petrie from the University of Verona and Victoria Primhak from the Oriental School of Naples pointed out that although in 1989 the European Court of Justice had ruled that the Italian government was guilty of discrimination, nothing had been done about it since to resolve the situation and the Italian government had refused access to relevant documents. Mr Petrie and Ms Primhak received a letter from the British Home Secretary, Jack Straw, in September stating that he had mentioned the problem to his Italian counterpart, Renato Ruggiero, who had assured him that he would recontact the British government concerning the matter.