(To Massimiliano D'Elia) Implosion Paris? Not really, but the affair with Italy in the last few hours makes Macron's nights extremely sleepless as he grapples with unpredictable internal political frictions and with the decline in consensus due to the disputed pension reform.
France cannot digest some points on which the Italian government, led by Giorgia Meloni it would be moving with conviction to try to solve age-old problems, which are no longer sustainable. Let's talk about migrants. With the Italian cities grappling with an apparently uncontrolled increase in delinquent phenomena, accentuated by the presence of irregular immigrants and with the reception centers in the ports of arrival now collapsing, Rome is trying all the ways to raise the bar of the attention of a phenomenon, the migratory one, for years left in the hands of the Bel Paese alone.
For this reason, Italy's activism during bilateral meetings with North African countries, not least the meeting with the Libyan generalissimo Kalifa Haftar in Rome, it touched the transalpine cousins in pride and in substance, also moving Brussels which cannot allow Italy and France to bring their relations to loggerheads, due to a marked and clear lack of community interest.
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Even in front of the Treaty of the Quirinale the diplomatic bomb triggered by the French interior minister was signed between Rome and Paris to favor economic conditions in various sectors of common interest darmian on immigration, it runs the risk of canceling or tempering reports on other important dossiers such as the one on Libya, Ukraine and Tim Vivendi.
Paris has not digested the presence in Italy of General Haftar a few days ago, while Rome has not yet swallowed the failed invitation to the Paris trilateral - Macron-Scholz-Zelensky. Then there is the Tim dossier and the spin-off of the network, with the majority French shareholders of Vivendi having rejected all the offers for now. Fortunately, the convergences of an economic-financial nature to be pursued in Brussels on European funds and flexibility and the will to favor industrial policies of common interest still remain aligned.
The management of migratory flows is also a hot topic of internal politics for the French government because Minister Darmian had presented a new framework law on immigration that was never scheduled in Parliament due to the marked divisions within the majority on the subject.
Meanwhile, the European Court of Human Rights has condemned France for inhuman and degrading treatment of families and unaccompanied minors, locked up for days in pre-trial detention centres. There are eleven sanctions imposed in Paris for violation of the rights to freedom and security of people. The director general of the French Immigration and Integration Office, Didier Leschi ascertained that of the more than 42 people who have landed in Italy since the beginning of the year, about half are nationals of countries in the French-speaking sub-Saharan area who want enter France.