(by Pasquale Preziosa) The European Union has long established its migration policy, which is inspired by the principle of solidarity.
The cornerstones of this policy, which belong to art. 79 and 80 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, (TFEU) are:
- legal migration;
-the integration,
- the fight against illegal immigration,
- readmission agreements, in the countries of origin of citizens who do not meet the conditions of entry, presence and stay in one of the member states.
According to the European Union, the correct management of migratory flows also entails the guarantee of fair treatment of third-country nationals, as well as the strengthening of measures to combat illegal immigration, including trafficking and trafficking of illegal immigrants. Again for the European Union, the principle of solidarity is based on the equitable sharing of responsibility among the member states also on the financial level, provided for by Article 80 of the TFEU.
The strategic guidelines were followed in the 2014 with the Stockholm program on Freedom, Security and Justice, to achieve an open and above all safe Europe, and the European Agenda on Migration was published in the 2015.
The issue of safety and repatriation is central to every European directive, for irregular migration it speaks of prevention and repression of trafficking in human beings (2011 / 36 / UE), for the repatriation it has also issued a "Manual on Repatriation".
European regulations on immigration are plentiful, but Italian politics, old and new, have repeatedly highlighted that Europeans have made commitments on immigration that they have not honored. When we do not keep our word, not only the contract fails, the pact which is more serious from a geopolitical point of view fails.
Why does Italy continue to press on irregular, clandestine migrants? For a number of reasons, first of all security and then financial. We are in a critical period for the security of our countries, Islamic terrorism is far from having been defeated.
Isis Chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is alive and well, he has started killing the last Druze hostages captured in Syria and now he wants to build the caliphate in Afghanistan. Al Qaeda is in good health both in Afghanistan and elsewhere, its leader al Zawahiri has regenerated his loyalty to the Taliban leader Hebatullah Akhundzada and Osama bin Laden's son Hamza has taken over from his father and married the daughter of Atta, one of the terrorists (engineer) of the twin towers of New York. The two organizations are in contact to increase terrorist pressure on the West.
Europe has adopted, after sixteen years, the PNR (Passenger Name Record), already in use in the United States after 11 September, to verify all passenger data, to identify subjects dangerous to national security. In the context of illegal migration, the identification of the subjects is completely missing. Legal migration, on the other hand, is regulated, as is that of asylum seekers.
Illegal, clandestine migration is the real crux of the problem, we do not know who we are dealing with, we lack the information to identify with certainty dangerous individuals.
According to terrorism experts (S. Valente), "Terrorism could again change its name, operating methods and strategies, take root in new territorial contexts, exploiting political and geopolitical voids, and then suddenly strike the West. It could find fertile ground within the individual western national communities exploiting migratory flows (in the absence of effective integration policies), the permeability of borders and the set of transformations that have affected the state ".
If this is the analysis of the sector, the Security of the Nation is based on the balanced work between the executive, the legislative and the judiciary that in unison and in balance can guarantee the prevention of terrorist phenomena in the country, identifying the dangerous individuals, preventing the unidentifiable ones from crossing the border: in other words, to bring the country back into law.
Only legality ensures sufficient levels of security.
In the analysis, two additional elements are mentioned for migrants: the financial aspect and the need for integration.
The cost of migration has reached a considerable figure of 5 billion euros / year for Italy, this is today a structural expenditure for the state budget which is also increasing. In the national planning of the migration phenomenon, the parameters of financial sustainability over time for our country are not known.
However, the countries with high public debt, and among these Italy, have only one task: to manage the debt but above all, do not make further debt, on pain of the instability of the financial framework and therefore of the country itself.
Europe, on the other hand, must get out of the misunderstanding it has found itself in and really exercise solidarity, it cannot make high-sounding speeches in the field of European defense, undermining one of the founding principles of the European Union: solidarity is the glue for the common defense. In this serious period of terrorism, Italy cannot renounce its security, and now it must also find the funds for the integration of the migrants present.
Without integration, migrants will not be transformed into a resource for the country with all conceivable consequences in the social, economic and security fields, but without institutional compactness to combat the serious phenomenon the game is already lost.