These two ladies #UrsulaVonDerLeyen, President of the #EuropeanUnion and #GiorgiaMeloni, Italian Prime Minister, want to create a naval blockade on the #MediterraneanSea to repel illegal immigrants. This will be an obstacle to the life-saving activities of #NGOs.
#VonderLeyen heads to #Lampedusa as #Italy
battles #migrant surge. #EuropeanCommission chief’s trip comes as italian leader calls for #navalblockade against #migrants crossing the #Mediterranean. “This is the same #MarineLePen and #Salvini conduct!”
Von der Leyen heads to Lampedusa as Italy battles migrant surge
European Commission chief’s trip comes as Italian leader calls for naval blockade against migrants crossing the Mediterranean.
BY CAMILLE GIJS SEPTEMBER 16, 2023 1:46 PM CET
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will travel Sunday to the Italian island of Lampedusa, as the government of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni struggles with a surge in migrant arrivals.
Eric Mamer, the Commission’s chief spokesperson, said on Saturday that von der Leyen is heading to the island on the invitation of Meloni. The Italian leader on Friday vowed to take “extraordinary measures” to curb the influx of migrants to Italy and called on the EU to help with a naval blockade to stop crossings in the Mediterranean Sea.
In a video posted on social media, Meloni promised to take action following a surge of irregular migrant arrivals this week on the Italian island of Lampedusa.
The far-right leader said she wrote to European Council President Charles Michel asking to address migration during an October EU summit and also invited von der Leyen to see conditions on Lampedusa.
“I intend to reiterate a request for an immediate EU mission to block the departure of migrant boats,” Meloni said.
On Saturday, a newborn baby has been found dead on a boat carrying people to Lampedusa during a rescue operation.
The Italian Red Cross said in a statement there were about 3,800 people on the small island as of Friday, with about 2,500 expected to be transferred elsewhere.
The number of people arriving by boat after crossing the Mediterranean has more than doubled this year, to 106,000 so far in 2023, compared to 53,000 over the same period last year, according to government data.
The surge — which comes despite the European Commission’s controversial deal with Tunisia in July to stem migration flows to Europe — puts pressure on Meloni, who arrived in power last year with promises to rein in migration. Meloni joined von der Leyen in Tunis to finalize the pact, exchanging aid funding for stricter efforts to prevent migrants from making the crossing. Since the agreement was signed, however, arrivals have increased by nearly 40 percent.
French President Emmanuel Macron spoke with Meloni on Saturday, Reuters reported, with Macron reiterating France’s support for Italy in facing the surge in migrant arrivals. France’s Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin will visit Italy in the coming days to meet his counterpart, the French presidency said.
“Today is a time first of all for solidarity with Italy and also for mobilization by the European Union to come in support,” French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne told BFM TV on Saturday.
The French and Italian interior ministers also held a call on Saturday with their German counterpart and EU representatives, Darmanin said in a post on social media. German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said late Friday that Berlin has decided to keep taking in migrants arriving in Italy, two days after it announced the suspension of an agreement with Rome to receive new arrivals.
Fonte: Politicoeu
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Mentre i sovranisti abbaiano all’invasione, la popolazione vera di Lampedusa accoglie i migranti e li sostiene. #Lampedusa
While sovranists bark to the invasion, the true Lampedusian population welcomes migrants and supports them.
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#Meloni in the various press conferences regarding the “#illegalimmigration” problem, together with the other neo-Nazis #Salvini and #LePen, continues to repeat that the embarkations from where the immigrants depart must be stopped, but this is impossible.
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These people are so desperate that they cannot bear more than living in the extreme conditions in which he lives. Blocking #ports or blocking #MediterraneanSea serves to nothing, except to kill all the #migrants at sea, as has already happened.
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We need to build a better future in #immigrants countries, improve the stability of their political system for these people at their home if we want to stop this exodus in the #MediterraneanSea.
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“Questo #esodo non finirà….” ci disse #RenatoZero nel 2016 riguardo la questione dei #migranti nel #MarMediterraneo con la canzone #Chiedi del suo album #Alt. “This exodus will not finish” said Renato Zero regarding #immigrants question.
https://x.com/bralex84/status/1703430143258083425
Dott. Alessio Brancaccio, tecnico ambientale Università di L’Aquila, membro partecipante ordinario Fondazione Michele Scarponi Onlus, ideologo ed attivista del movimento ambientalista italiano Ultima Generazione A22 Network
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