‘Immigrant’ crisis between Italy and Germany: Is this your response to our demands?
The German government’s decision to financially support NGOs carrying out rescue operations in the Mediterranean sparked reactions in Italy. Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said in an interview with La Stampa newspaper that Germany did not help Italy with this measure.
“THEY ARE PUTTING US IN DIFFICULTY”
Crosetto said: “This is a very serious situation. By taking this step, Berlin acts as if it were not aware that it is putting a country that, in theory, could be a “friend” in a difficult situation. “Is this your response to our requests for help?” he said.
“IT IS A STRANGE SITUATION”
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani also stated that he will visit the capitals of France and Germany, with whom they have had disagreements over immigration in recent weeks. Tajani said that in Paris he would say that France’s decision on Ventimiglia (increasing border control) was wrong, and in Berlin he would talk about the German government’s decision to fund NGOs. “This is a strange situation,” Tajani said. “We will try to understand why they acted this way,” he said.
“WE DO NOT HAVE WHAT WE EXPECTED ABOUT MIGRATION”
In Italy, where arrivals of irregular immigrants have increased in recent weeks, Giorgia Meloni, leader of the right-wing coalition government, which came to power a year ago with its anti-immigration arguments, evaluated her first year in government on a television channel. . . Meloni acknowledged that she did not get the results he expected on immigration.
“I was hoping for better on immigration,” Meloni said. We worked hard but the results are not what we expected to see. This is a very complex topic, but I’m sure we’ll get to the bottom of it. “This issue deserves a second stage,” he said.
In its first year in power, in the area of the fight against illegal migration, the Meloni government not only issued regulations to limit NGO ships from carrying out more than one migrant rescue operation in the Mediterranean, but He also made some “deterrent” decisions for immigrants. and also held the International Conference on Migration in Rome on July 23.
SERIOUS INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF IRREGULAR MIGRANTS
According to data from the Italian Ministry of the Interior, the total number of people who arrived in the country by boat between January 1 and September 22 of this year was 132,867, while this figure was 69,498 for the same period of 2022. and 43 thousand 756 in 2021. (BRITISH AUTOMOBILE CLUB)