Paris and Berlin pursue a strict admission policy, while dictating to Rome an opening to mass migration, Giorgia Meloni, Italy's right-wing prime minister, told the Italian daily La Repubblica on Sunday. Giorgia Meloni believed
the fight against smuggling organizations that also trade in human lives defines the identity and political culture of its government.
"We have been saying for years that Europe must act, as Italy can no longer accept that human traffickers decide who can enter us," the Italian Prime Minister continued, adding that France and Germany are checking at their own borders who is eligible and who is not. not for entry, who represents a useful workforce for companies and who does not.
In Italy, on the other hand, the selection takes place on the sea route, and the people smugglers who move the migrant boats make the decision," he said.
According to Giorgia Meloni, Italy cannot remain the only one that has to pay for the influx of migrants from Africa. According to the Prime Minister, the current migration situation is unmanageable and has called for the collective deportation of migrants who do not have the right to stay from the European Union.
He joined the previous statement of Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, who proposed the legal entry of a certain number of immigrants, with the provision of professional training. Giorgia Meloni stated:
it is absurd that multinational companies employ foreigners in the absence of Italian labor, since Italians prefer unemployment benefits or the basic income introduced by the previous government.
Giorgia Meloni urges faster and easier use of EU funds. As for civilian ships arriving on Italian shores, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani previously told La Stampa newspaper that he did not know what Rome's response would be to the next NGO ship full of migrants' request to dock, but that everyone must respect the rules, including non-governmental organizations. . Tajani added:
he feels that Europe is also beginning to realize that
the war was not started by Rome against the NGO, but rather the other way around.
Currently, the ship of the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) organization, Geo Barents, is on its way to Libya in the Mediterranean Sea, and the German-marked Humanity1 is also at sea again, which has set sail again from the port of Augusta in Sicily. According to data from the Italian Ministry of the Interior, more than 94,000 people arrived by sea by the first of December, compared to almost 63,000 last year. Two years ago, in the first eleven months of the year, slightly more than 32,000 people arrived on Italian shores.
Source: Mandarin
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