“The agreement with Albania on migrants can become a model of collaboration between EU countries and non-EU countries on the management of migratory flows” said Giorgia Meloni in an interview with Il Messaggero, while the Albanian politicians of opposition raise barricades. "It is an agreement that strengthens the strategic partnership between Italy and Albania and arises [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) At the international conference for the twentieth anniversary of the UN convention against organized crime, Alfredo Mantovano, Carlo Nordio and Matteo Piantedosi illustrated the plan to 34 foreign delegations. Also present were the German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser and the French Minister Gerard Darmanin with whom Italy signed an agreement for the establishment of a cabin [...]
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The Internal Affairs Council will meet today in Brussels where the agenda could include the discussion of the so-called "external dimension of migration" and the situation on the island of Lampedusa. The EU Interior Ministers will then be busy discussing the memorandum of understanding between the European Union and Tunisia and the ten-point plan for [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) There is the umbrella of the EU on the implementing decree signed by Minister Piantedosi which provides for a kind of deposit of around five thousand euros for migrants who come from a country considered safe, such as Tunisia so to speak.
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We need to immediately double the detention and repatriation centers for illegal migrants - CPR. New structures must be created to detain those who are waiting to return to their country because they do not have the qualifications to obtain asylum in Italy or Europe. The system is already tested and is that of the tensile structures set up during the recent pandemic. […]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Ursula von der Leyen accepted the invitation of the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to visit the island of Lampedusa which is dealing with a real humanitarian emergency. There is still no certainty about the date. In recent days the island has had to welcome around 7000 migrants (294 boats arrived in a single day), exceeding beyond belief the capacity foreseen by its structures which can reach a maximum of 700 covered places.
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(by Francesco Matera) Die Welt reported the news that Germany has written to the Italian government to temporarily interrupt the reception of migrants on its territory, more precisely it wrote clearly that the "voluntary solidarity mechanism is for the moment suspended, due to the strong migratory pressure towards the Federal Republic". […]
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Also two pregnant women among the people recovered from a cliff on Lampedusa thanks to the intervention of an HH-139 helicopter of the 82nd SAR Center 29 people were rescued this afternoon thanks to the intervention of a helicopter of the 82nd Center SAR of Trapani, which took part in a major operation involving personnel and [...]
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“We are united and tenacious, this is the message we are sending (to Putin ed)“, said the President of the European Council Charles Michel at the end of the summit with EU leaders. The issue of Russian immobilized assets was also addressed and that the Commission will present a proposal on windfall profits from the now frozen activities of […]
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Yesterday the interior ministers of the Union agreed on the issue of migratory flows by drafting a first legislative draft that looks closely at asylum requests. Once an agreement has been found, the tortuous and insidious path of strong confrontation between the Council and the Parliament now begins. It raises concern, in future debates that will follow the approval process of [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) Almost a thousand people rescued and landed in Lampedusa, another 300 in the Ionian Sea. A wave that makes the number of arrivals in our country soar again, exceeding the levels of 2022 and 2021 in the same period. A new trend that greatly worries the Italian government which has tried to […]
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59 migrants died in the shipwreck that took place this morning at dawn off the coast of Steccato di Cutro, 20 kilometers from Crotone. 80 people survived, 21 of these were transferred to hospital and one of them is in serious condition. The other survivors were transferred to the Reception Center [...]
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Yesterday Frontex, the European Border Surveillance Agency, published a new report according to which the number of "illegal" migrants who arrived in the European Union last year is the highest recorded since 2016. The most traveled route remains the Balkan one, but, especially in recent months, the landings on the Italian coasts of immigrants from [...]
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Egypt is going through a serious economic crisis and as an immediate result there is an anomalous migratory flow towards Europe. The latest official statistics on Egypt's poverty rate estimate that nearly a third of the country lives below the poverty line. The austerity measures imposed by Sisi have created a deep [...]
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The German government has asked Italy to "quickly help" the 104 unaccompanied minors rescued in the Mediterranean Sea by the German-flagged ship Humanity 1. Thus Berlin in the letter in response to the Italian government's “note verbale” with which it was asked to take charge of the migrants rescued on the NGO ships flying the German and Norwegian flags. [...]
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The clashes in Tripoli in recent days have involved militias close to the government of Abdul Hamid Ddeibah, recognized by the UN, and those close to Fathi Bashaga, premier recognized by the parliament based in Tobruck, particularly close to Russia. The first ones prevailed, with Ddeibah who also granted himself, as a sign of strength, a [...]
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Truss: England will continue with the Navy to manage the flow of migrants
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The number of would-be Sudanese migrants to Europe, passing through Morocco, has increased dramatically as the passage through Libya has become increasingly difficult. To write it today is the French newspaper Le Monde which, in detail, tells the story of some who survived a recent shipwreck. Issam has a hand in plaster, shoulder pain [...]
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The Russian newspaper Izvestia revealed Turkey's plan to resolve the Ukrainian wheat issue. It will be the Turkish navy to mine the Black Sea and then escort the Ukrainian ships in neutral waters. The goal is to free up almost 53 million [...]
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The landings on the Italian coasts continue, more than 52 thousand men, women and children who have landed in our country since the beginning of the year, twice as many as arrived in 2020. Matteo Salvini, in this regard, addresses the minister of 'Interior Luciana Lamorgese. “Tell the minister and Brussels that anyone is landing in Italy now”. TO […]
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A dozen Member States such as Austria, Cyprus, Denmark, Greece, Lithuania, Poland, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia and the Slovak Republic wrote to Brussels asking to finance "as a priority" and "adequately" physical barriers at the borders, defined as "an effective protection measure in the interest of the entire EU" and the functioning of the Schengen area. After the [...]
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The State Police of Cagliari conducted an operation to combat the international smuggling of migrants, with the boarding of a 17-meter sailing ship flying the Dutch flag, about 2 miles off the beach of Piscinni (CA). of the Flying Squad of Cagliari have thus given execution to two orders of precautionary custody [...]
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In a few days the "white semester" of the President of the Republic and the leader of the League, Matteo Salvini launches his "out out" to Prime Minister Draghi: "I wrote to Draghi and told him that by August the problem of landings must be solved. If the minister (Lamorgese ed) is not able to solve it, take some [...]
read moreDivision Admiral (res.) Nicola De Felice, of the Lazio Region League board, tomorrow organized a demonstration in front of the German embassy in Rome to represent the dissent of the Italians to the support of the German Government as a Flag State for ships German NGOs Sea Watch 3, 4, Alan Kurdi and Louise Michel Bansky. Thus in [...]
read moreYesterday evening, a Coast Guard patrol boat towed a fishing boat carrying about 150 migrants to the port of Roccella Jonica. The boat was ten miles offshore from Marina di Gioiosa Jonica when it was reached by the Coast Guard after having received a request for help launched through a [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Every day there is a real assault on our coasts. 350 arrived tonight with the famous ghost boats, another 85 were rescued by the Coast Guard in waters not under Italian jurisdiction, in the deafening silence of Malta, Libya and France who ignored the distress calls, [...]
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Compared to the same period in 2019, landings have tripled reaching the figure of 12.228 of which only in July 5.278, a third equal to 4354 are Tunisians. (by Massimiliano D'ELIA) Tunisia is suffering from a serious economic crisis because it can no longer take advantage of tourism revenues due to the effects of the pandemic [...]
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Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese disclosed the data of migrants disembarked in Italy: 9372 since the beginning of the year, of which 2372 rescued by NGOs. 80 percent of migrants used, therefore, improvised small boats that are difficult to identify during navigation and especially when docking on our shores. But how are they organized? An investigation by [...]
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In the next few days, the landings in Italy will intensify and the Government is running for cover, boats and barracks will be able to be requisitioned to welcome irregular migrants to allow them to spend the quarantine period. Health checks will continue and those to ensure safety in these new environments with the aim of avoiding social tensions with [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) A few months ago, before the virus took over all of humanity, its lives, its behaviors and its certainties, the World Health Organization had drawn up a report on the healthcare system in Africa from which it emerged a consolidated and, unfortunately, known situation of alarming deterioration. In particular, the report put in [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The leader of the League, Matteo Salvini wrote to the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella: "I am guaranteed the right to a fair trial, before an impartial third judge". President Sarpietro of the Court of Catania, regarding the appeal of the former Minister of the Interior to the President of the Republic: "Don't worry, Senator Salvini, he will have a [...]
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The British newspaper "The Guardian" quoted the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights as confirming that about 2000 rebels would be transferred to Libya from the Syrian city of Idlib to reinforce Fayez al-Serraj's troops. The New York Times, on the other hand, reported the news that the forces belonging to the Tripoli Protection Force have [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The Turkish Parliament will meet in extraordinary session on Thursday 2 January at 14, when in Italy it will be 12, to anticipate the vote on President Erdogan's AKP motion authorizing the sending of troops to Libya in support of the government of national accord of Fayez al-Sarraj against the offensive of the militias of [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Libyan interior minister Fathi Bashagha said his government will send Turkey an official request for military support to fight mercenaries alongside Khalifa Haftar. Erdogan replied that on the 7th the Turkish parliament (certainly of the majority) will approve the sending of troops to support Tripoli. On the 8th [...]
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The number of landings on the Italian coasts by migrants using "small boats" continues to grow. In the last 24 hours, at least 70 immigrants landed on the southern coasts of Sardinia. Some arrived on the island crammed into a small wooden and fiberglass boat driven by a 40 horsepower engine, while others 12 [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) "A historic step forward, a decisive turning point on repatriation", so the Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on the sidelines of the meetings held at the UN headquarters in New York. Prime Minister Conte refers to the Malta agreement between the ministers of the interior of EU countries. The Italian proposal, agreed with the European Commission, [...]
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Last night at Palazzo Chigi in the apartment of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, dinner with Emmanuel Macron. The two countries, after the turbulent months of the yellow-green government, come together again to try to solve common problems. At least this is the intention of the government led by Giuseppe Conte, to try to deal with the Libya dossier in a structural way [...]
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Repubblica.it writes that since dawn the ship has dropped anchor in the Cala Francese area, a few hundred meters from the port of Lampedusa. Personnel from the Port Authority, the Guardia di Finanza and the Cisom doctors went up for an inspection on board the boat of the Catalan NGO that headed for the island of the Pelagie, [...]
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Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte wrote to me “for the disembarkation of a few hundred migrants aboard a ship belonging to an NGO that is foreign and in foreign waters .. I will reply politely. It is not clear why they should land in Italy ”. The leader of the League Matteo Salvini from Genoa reported. [...]
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"With a full return of the activities of NGOs in the Mediterranean there will be an exodus of migrants to Italy" The spokesman for the Libyan Coast Guard, Admiral Ayoub #Qassem, told AGI. "The Italian government must not allow the people rescued by these ships to be able to disembark because otherwise the culture of emigration to [...] will spread again.
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The captain of the Sea Watch3, Carola Rackete, was entered in the register of suspects for aiding in illegal immigration and for refusing to obey a warship, according to the provisions of the navigation code. The registration in the register of suspects, by the Prosecutor of Agrigento, was made after the acquisition of the annotation of the Guardia di Finanza. [...]
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Nave Cigala Fulgosi, a combat unit of the Italian Navy, part of Operation Mare Sure together with other aeronaval defense units, a mission assigned by the Government and Parliament and aimed at protecting national interests in the central Mediterranean, is conducting presence activities surveillance and deterrence, also due to the current security situation in [...]
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The ship Mare Ionio, flying the Italian flag, of the Mediterranean project, is at anchor a mile and a half from Lampedusa, which yesterday rescued 49 migrants off the Libyan coast. According to NGO volunteers, some soldiers of the Guardia di Finanza are on board the ship and are carrying out an inspection relating to [...]
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Mordechai Kedar, a scholar of Islam has made a very interesting analysis on the phenomenon of migration to Europe, published in Arutz Sheva - Israelnationalnews. In the West, when the place of birth offers security, education, work, a comfortable home to live in and a partner with whom to raise a family, emigrating to another country has no [...]
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The Vice President of the Council and Minister of the Interior, Matteo Salvini, a guest at "diMartedì", on La7, said that "the Senate and the Italians must decide whether I am doing something in the interest of the Italian people or not: there are reports specify that criminals, terrorists and drug dealers infiltrate the boats. To every boat that arrives in Italy illegally [...]
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Disembark the minors who are on board the Sea Watch. To ask is the Public Prosecutor of Catania. But also this time the government holds the point. For the ministers Toninelli, Di Maio and Salvini, Holland must take care of the 47 migrants on board. "Until there are agreements [...]
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Germany suspends participation in the 'Sophia' operation, the EU's naval deployment to combat human trafficking across the Mediterranean. According to information received by the Dpa, after the deployment of the 'Augusta' frigate, no other ships of the German navy will participate. Berlin's decision would be the consequence of the Italian government's reluctance to allow refugees to disembark, the Dpa still reports. In front of […]
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No more than 50 migrants are still missing off the Libyan coast. The spokesman for the Libyan Navy, Ayoub Qassem, told "Agenzia Nova", who denied the news relating to the drowning of 170 people in the Mediterranean. Previously, in fact, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) had expressed "deep sorrow" for [...]
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A merchant ship sent by the Libyan Coast Guard reached the damaged boat which had been 60 kilometers from Misurata for hours, and the hundred shipwrecked people who risked dying at sea set course for Misurata. This was announced by Palazzo Chigi in a note. "Help us, soon I will not be able to speak anymore because I am freezing". It was this [...]
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Illusion, this is the feeling that hovers among European countries after yet another tragedy that took place in the Mediterranean, 117 drowned in front of Tripoli. They had left with an already deflated dinghy. The 3 survivors said that it is better to die than to remain in the "lager" collection centers in Libya. They would suffer [...]
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On yesterday's rubber dinghy in front of Tripoli there were 120 people, according to the spokesman of the IOM, Flavio Di Giacomo. “The three survivors who arrived in Lampedusa told us there were 120 - he explains -. After 11 hours of navigation, they took on water and began to sink. Many in the water began to drown others [...]
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The online newspaper Il Dolomiti has published an interesting article that reveals the "illegal" way in which the smuggling of migrants and the trafficking of human beings from African countries to Europe is developing. The research on the role of the Internet and social networks on the burning topic is called "Surf and sound" [...]
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"One of the 32 shipwrecked aboard Sea Watch 3 jumped into the water trying to reach Malta". The German NGO writes via Twitter that on December 22 rescued the migrants and since then has been waiting for a European decision on the port where to disembark them. Three days ago Valletta authorized the entry of the ship [...]
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(by Giovanni D'Agata, "Rights Desk") The journey on a small boat to reach Sardinia by a group of Algerians has turned into a tragedy. The engine stalled and the punt was left adrift a few kilometers from Isola del Toro, near Sant'Antioco, on the south west coast of the island. Three migrants were [...]
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Amnesty International criticized, in a statement on Monday, the "deplorable" and "ruthless" policies of the European Union regarding the response to the migration crisis in the Mediterranean. "Due to the ruthless policies of the EU states to prevent the arrival of thousands of men, women and children on the coasts of Europe, they are trapped in Libya, exposed to [...]
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The march of more than two thousand migrants, coming from Honduras to the United States, who had gathered on a bridge between Guatemala and Mexico, has resumed. Gathering in a park in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Hidalgo, the migrants voted by show of hands the decision to get back into the caravan and march [...]
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The tug-of-war between Italy and the EU on the issue of migrants continues. After the news revealed yesterday by Repubblica which announced that the German government is organizing collective returns to Italy of "dublinanti" - migrants who are tracked down in European countries other than the first entry - responds Interior Minister Matteo [...]
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"Let us respect the EU better, let's not dirty its image, let's try to defend its image, let's say yes to patriotism, no to exaggerated nationalism that detests others and tries to destroy them". These are the words spoken by Jean-Claude Juncke, President of the EU Commission, in his speech on the state of the Union at the Plenary meeting held in Strasbourg. "External challenges arise [...]
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The Farnesina responds to the statements made by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, which in a note considers the accusations of Michelle Bachelet, who denounced alleged Italian non-compliance with respect to the human rights of migrants, inappropriate and groundless. "For years, Italy has been engaged in rescue and rescue operations of [...]
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The investigation carried out by the Italian periodical Panorama on identity theft in Africa to the detriment of the Eritrean people is very interesting. Fausto Biloslavo on 21 December 2017 wrote a very interesting editorial that we propose again to try to understand something more about the phenomenon of migratory flows and above all to unmask what lies behind the trafficking of human beings. "In the [...]
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On twitter, the Minister of Transport Danilo Toninelli provides information to Diciotti, "the port is that of Catania". Too bad that the Ministry of the Interior does not authorize the landing. Matteo Salvini repeats the line of the past few days. “Nobody will abandon ship until concrete solutions arrive at a European level for the distribution of the castaways”. The Head of [...]
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(by Maurizio Giannotti - SAI Ambrosini President) The case of the Diciotti ship is truly worrying because it reveals the inexistence of timely and reliable information exchanges between the Interior Ministry and the Coast Guard - Navy for the control and management of the immigration emergency, a "phenomenon "Now very delicate for the security of our country. Prompt information well distributed among [...]
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Four days off Lampedusa for the Diciotti ship of the Italian Coast Guard, which rescued 190 migrants in Maltese waters. To this day, he still does not receive directions to reach a safe harbor. After the denial of Malta, the request for docking was made to the Interior Ministry which challenges the Italian Coast Guard for the initiative [...]
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The European Commission wants to investigate and has asked the Italian government for clarification. The Italian tug Asso Ventotto rescued just over 100 people and then turned 360 ° towards Tripoli. "Revolution", everyone shouted at the scandal, "it is forbidden by the rules, Libya is not a safe haven", so left, NGOs and UNHCRs. Immediate […]
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(by Admiral Giuseppe De Giorgi) "The 28 leaders have reached an agreement on the conclusions of the European Council, including immigration", announced on 29 June the President of the European Council Donald Tusk at the end of a night marathon for the difficult negotiation. On the same day, the Italian Prime Minister Conte replied: "From this European Council [...]
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The NGO Open Arms heads straight towards Spain, guilty, according to them, the Italian Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini. Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini replied on his twitter profile, "maybe they have something to hide". The NGO controversy has been going on for days. He accused Italy of being an "accomplice" of the Libyan coast guard, calling it "assassins enlisted by Italy". [...]
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A group of migrants almost certainly managed to cross the French border aboard a stolen pedal boat in Ventimiglia. The unusual means of transport was found in Cap Martine without showing any signs of damage. The forces responsible for border control were certainly concentrated on controlling the land borders of Ponte San Ludovico [...]
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The two Italian ships with 450 migrants on board docked in Pozzallo. The odyssey that saw the Italian government at the forefront to assert the considerations expressed at the end of June by the European partners has finally ended. On a voluntary basis, all EU countries offered to contribute to the reception. Opposition emerged from the countries [...]
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As expected, the phenomenon of mass migrations from Africa has not ended, indeed with good weather it tends to increase by the hour. Sources from the Interior Ministry let it be known that a fishing boat loaded with 450 migrants is sailing towards Italy. Departed from Libya, probably from Zuara. For a few hours he sailed in the direction of the [...]
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Matteo Salvini expressed satisfaction and optimism at the end of the trilateral meeting in Innsbruck which saw the Ministers of the Interior of Italy, Berlin and Vienna gathered to talk about the migrant emergency. A three-way agreement, an "axis of the willing" led by Austria, Germany and Italy. This is how Salvini summarized the agreement reached during the meeting. Interior Minister Salvini [...]
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The ship Diciotti of the Italian Coast Guard with on board the 67 migrants rescued by the Italian tugboat Vos Thalassa in front of Libya will be able to disembark in Trapani. This is learned in a note after the Conte-Salvini summit at Palazzo Chigi. The Minister of the Interior, Matteo Salvini met with Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and said that [...]
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According to what emerged from the Quirinale circles, during the conversation of the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella with Matteo Salvini, there was talk of immigration, terrorism, security, confiscation of assets from the mafia and Libya without any mention of the issue relating to the preventive seizure of accounts of the League ordered by a sentence of the Cassation. The interviews, which [...]
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On the dignity decree, “in truth I have received heavy criticism from the organizations representing large industries. Small and medium-sized businesses know we are working to cut red tape and make their paychecks lighter. We removed the split payment and deactivated the income meter, a fire that was smoldering under the ashes. [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Imagine an immense dam of water and small holes on the gigantic walls from where small streams of water emerge. Rivulets that herald the inevitable breaking of the mighty concrete wall. A danger for the valleys below because it is only a matter of time but sooner or later the small lacerations from which it emerges [...]
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The delicate issue of migrants continues to keep the tension high not only in Europe but also in Italy within the political forces of the government. After the "personal opinion" of the President of the Chamber Roberto Fico according to which the ports must be open; opinion also appreciated by Luigi Gallo who on Facebook declared "Italy [...]
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The Speaker of the Chamber Roberto Fico goes to Pozzallo and goes against the phase of the government line. During the visit he told the press: "I would not have closed the ports, immigration must be spoken with intelligence and heart". A heavy sentence that contrasts with the statement by Minister Matteo Salvini who [...]
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“A more responsible and more united Europe emerges from this European Council. Italy is no longer alone. Past principle that whoever arrives in Italy arrives in Europe ”. Conte leaving the Council building around five in the morning explained the content of the agreement to the journalists present, describing the most salient points of the text of the conclusions approved in [...]
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The issue of migrants is increasingly becoming the topic that most of all is putting Europe to the test. The President of the European Council Donald Tusk has proposed the creation of regional "platforms" outside Europe for the control and management of migrants who intend to cross borders. Proposal that seems to go towards the Italian one [...]
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The issue of Migrants continues to remain the hot topic on the Italian and international political scene. Danilo Toninelli, Minister of Infrastructure, replying to an interview on the Radio on the migrant issue, declared that he was in line with Interior Minister Matteo Salvini. According to Toninelli "the real battle is to separate the rescue from the management of requests [...]
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While the verbal clash between Macron and the two Italian deputy ministers, Di Maio and Salvini continues, Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of NATO, through an interview with Repubblica, declares that NATO is ready to help Italy in the Migrants emergency by covering a role in the stabilization of Libya. "As requested by the government of that country, the [...]
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The authorities of Malta continue to keep the ports closed to the ship of the German NGO, Lifeline, which remains in the Mediterranean with more than 200 migrants on board waiting for some country to allow it to dock. On the night of last Wednesday, the boat recovered 224 people from a rubber dinghy in Libyan waters and today [...]
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The pressure of the Italian government on the Maltese one continues to open ports to the Lifeline which has 242 migrants on board. To this day it still has the "transponder" turned off and it is not possible to understand where it can be. A tweet launched by the crew suggests that the Lifeline is in Maltese territorial waters. After this revelation immediately [...]
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Salvini to those who accuse him of conducting a policy on migrants who are isolating Italy indirectly responds to the microphones of Sky Tg24 on the sidelines of a rally held in Siena. "We have very clear ideas about welcoming migrants, the music has changed: in Italy there are no longer Monti, Renzi, Letta, Gentiloni who obeyed [...]
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Social networks, for better or for worse, are an "immediate" means to get the messages, or rather the message, without having to go through the chancelleries and thus avoid unnecessary delays due to bureaucratic channels. After the grievances of the Italian institutions on the draft "prepackaged" document that probably the major European partners wanted to propose at the top [...]
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The Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte during the meeting with the German Chancellor Angela Merkel put the heaviest cards on the table. The issue of migrants and the creation of a fund dedicated to poverty, with particular attention to minors. During the Franco-German summit in Germany, Merkel and Macron gave important openings to [...]
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As the European Council approaches, on 28 and 29 June next, German Chancellor Angela Merkel finds herself in the midst of an internal storm. The ruling coalition is imploding precisely on the issue of migrants. The rift was created between Merkel and her allies in the Bavarian CSU branch, led by the minister [...]
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Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero, interviewed by Corriere della Sera, anticipated some of the proposals that will be presented at the European Union summit at the end of the month. To give a positive change to the problem of migrants, Moavero talks about European assistance centers for migrants in countries of origin and transit, to limit [...]
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The Coast Guard ship “Diciotti” has arrived at the port of Catania, with over 932 people on board. The migrants were rescued in various interventions in the central Mediterranean. In the boat there are also two bodies recovered during the rescue interventions. Five of the migrants, four pregnant women and a minor, have already been transferred to [...]
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There is an open crisis between Italy and France. After the attacks by the French government on the Italian management of the Aquarius boat that transports 629 migrants collected at sea, according to rumors the prime minister Conte could cancel the planned visit to the Elysée. The French and Spanish criticisms were triggered by the ban on docking imposed by the authorities [...]
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Salvini sent an urgent letter to the Maltese authorities requesting that the Aquarius ship with 629 migrants on board disembark in Valletta, as the nearest port, but the Maltese authorities reiterate that it is not their responsibility. "The rescue took place in the Libyan search and rescue area and was coordinated by the center [...]
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Dublin regulation at the terminus. Today the meeting of the Ministers of the Interior and Justice in Luxembourg, Italy and 10 other countries, for different reasons, said "no" to the compromise on the reform of the rules to review the agreement on the right of asylum for migrants arriving in Europe. The stop to the text proposed by the Bulgarian presidency, which [...]
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On June 5 there will be a meeting in Brussels between the Ministers of the Interior of the member countries. Too bad that the Italian Minister of the Interior will be engaged in Italy for the vote of confidence of the government of change. In the meantime, the emergency continues in the Mediterranean, where the landings and unfortunately also the dead have continued today. The Leader of [...]
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International charity vessels and Libya's coast guard collected several hundred migrants on Saturday as smugglers tried to take advantage of the calm seas to launch large numbers of boats to Italy. The Libyan coastguard ships intercepted three migrant ships, the first a rubber dinghy that had been filled with [...]
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel asked all European Member States to actively contribute to coping with the large influx of migrants. We must work together to stem the flow by strengthening external borders and fighting the problems that cause their lands to flee. Speaking to Parliament, before a meeting with [...]
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This morning, to the microphones of the 'Uno Mattina' broadcast, Marco Minniti, Minister of the Interior of the Gentiloni Government, commented on the situation relating to the concrete problem relating to landings: "Today's data tells us that at the moment, we are always talking about very delicate situations, the situation is under control: we are in the eighth consecutive month of a figure less than [...]
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Thirteen wounded in Calais, in northern France, during a violent fight between migrants. The Minister of the Interior, Gérard Collomb, announces that he will go there as early as this evening. The brawl, which opposed Afghans and Eritreans, broke out around 15pm. Police sources speak of 13 injured, four of whom were hit with a [...]
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Migrants, in Germany, continue to be the tip of the balance for the formation of a government. By mid-March the suspension of family reunification would have expired and therefore the adoption of a new law was necessary, especially from the point of view of 'Union. The Bundestag, today, has decided to extend the controversial measures aimed at suspending the law [...]
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Enrico Letta, professor at the Parisian University of Sciences Po and president of the Jacques Delors Institute, talks about immigration in an interview with “Libe'ration”. “People have the feeling that states no longer manage anything on the issue of migrants. Extremist parties take advantage. They came to power in Austria and have won many seats in the Bundestag [...]
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Benjamin Griveaux, spokesman for the French government, who spoke on the Sunday radio and television program “Grand Rendez-vous” of Europe 1, officially clarified the announcement made by President Emmanuel Macron on the sidelines of the African Union summit held on November 29th. Regarding a task force to rescue African migrants stranded in Libya, the spokesman said: "The [...]
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At least six militiamen dead and 48 injured in the toll of 4 days of clashes between rival gangs of human traffickers in Sabrata, the crossroads, 40 km west of Tripoli, of this inhuman trade, and forces linked in some way to the government of national unity of Tripoli, by Prime Minister Fayez al Sarraj. [...]
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Federico Gelli, head of the health department of the Democratic Party, underlines: "Instrumentalizing the death of the 4-year-old girl as the center-right is doing, saying it is all the fault of the migrants, is an absolute blunder." Gelli, engaged in Florence at the Unity party which this year hosts the national thematic focus on the health sector, specified: "First of all we start from a [...]
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If it were confirmed that the malaria case of the child who died in Brescia is indigenous and transmitted by mosquitoes, it would be the first for over thirty years. This is confirmed by Giampiero Carosi, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Brescia, according to whom the most likely hypothesis is that a mosquito has bitten someone infected, perhaps after a trip, and then transmitted the [...]
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More than half an hour from the beginning of the Mass which will be concelebrated by the vicar of the bishop of Pistoia and by Father Massimo Biancalani, the priest who accompanied some migrants to the pool, provoking reactions from the right, many people are already in front of the church in the neighborhood of Vicofaro in Pistoia. Police forces and traffic police are present in [...]
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The German government rejects the Dublin Regulation, which requires the examination of asylum applications to the first country of disembarkation, and insists on the redistribution of migrants in all countries of the European Union. "It is not possible that Greece or Italy alone will have to bear all the burdens only because their geographical position is what [...]
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Although Italy has raised the question of where to take rescued migrants at sea as part of discussions on the renewal of the mandate of the Sophia mission, EU foreign ministers at their meeting on Monday are not expected to change the disembarkation rules. "There have been extensive discussions on the mandate" of the Sophia operation which must be renewed [...]
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Austria slows down on the deployment of troops and armored vehicles at the Brenner pass and ensures that cooperation with Italy on the migrant front is "really good". After the protest in Rome, which had summoned the ambassador of Vienna, came the clarification of the Austrian chancellor, the social democrat Christian Kern. "We are not deploying armored vehicles at Brenner and [...]
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“A thousand immigrants landed in Salerno, another 700 arriving in Taranto. The ships that collected immigrants in Libyan waters are now diverted to Campania and Puglia, with a much longer and more tortuous tour, so that Sicily and the Taormina area, where the most powerful seven are gathered at [...]
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“A thousand immigrants landed in Salerno, another 700 arriving in Taranto. The ships that collected immigrants in Libyan waters are now diverted to Campania and Puglia, with a much longer and more tortuous tour, so that Sicily and the Taormina area, where the most powerful seven are gathered at [...]
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