Berlusconi and the state of emergency in North Africa

On 7 April, the President of the Council of Ministers signed undecreto declaring "the state of humanitarian emergency in the territory of North Africa to allow an effective contrast to the exceptional influx of foreign nationals into the country (OJ No 83, 11 - 4-2011). Yes, yes, you read right: the Prime Minister has established, by a decree, the state of emergency in a foreign territory, the boundaries are unclear, because generically referred to as "North Africa".