Germany offers Tunisia to cooperate to open a legal path for migration
June 19 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The French Interior Minister, Gérald Darmanin, has announced from Tunisia a package of 25.8 million euros to help the North African country to control migration.
These funds will serve to finance the training of personnel and the necessary equipment to prevent the boats from leaving for Europe and would be added to the 900 million recently announced by the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, who also traveled to the Tunisian capital.
Darmanin has traveled to Tunisia accompanied by the German Interior Minister, Nancy Faeser, and both have met with the country’s president, Kais Saied, at the Presidential Palace in Carthage.
For his part, Faeser has offered the Tunisian authorities increased cooperation to achieve a legal pathway for migration and thus avoid the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean.
“Good work structures have been established,” Faeser said after meeting with the Tunisian president and his Interior Minister, Kamel, Feki, according to German public television ARD.
Meanwhile, Saied has qualified the work of his country in the fight against migration. “We cannot play the role of guardians of the borders of other countries and we are not going to accept that migrants settle in our territory either,” she declared.
“Let’s face the facts together to get out of this vicious circle. There are criminal networks that traffic people in the south and north of the Mediterranean. We have to dismantle them and eliminate the reasons that have caused this situation,” he argued.
For Saied, measures in the field of security are necessary, but so far “they have only worsened the situation”, for which “it is necessary to look for solutions based on new approaches, on new ideas”, he stressed.
