The Italian Council of Ministers has decreed this Tuesday the national immigration state of emergency during the next six monthswith the aim of managing the illegal landing of immigrants.
The measure has been proposed by the Minister of Civil Protection and Maritime Policies, Nello Musumeciin a meeting with the Secretary of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi. You will receive seed funding from five million euros for the six months agreed.
The state of emergency will be implemented throughout the national territory due to the exceptional increase in the flow of migrants through the Mediterranean routes. The decision has been taken after the disembarkation of more than 3,000 people on Italian shores in the last three days.
Migrants disembark from the rescue ship of the NGO “Humanity 1” in Catania
The statement comes after a conversation held this Monday between Musumeci and the Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, and which was confirmed to efe by internal sources. “We have gladly adhered to Piantedosi’s request, well aware of the seriousness of a phenomenon that increases 300%. Let’s be clear, we are not solving the problem, whose solution is only linked to a conscious and responsible intervention of the European Union (EU),” Musumeci said.
The measure, which “allows to repeal some norms of the current legal system”“it will be national”, since “we need to help the regions because there is a risk of sending the system to the collapse if this rate of arrivals continues“, added Musumeci, although he insisted on the importance of Europe “realizing that there is not much time”. “If we intervene in the countries from which we move, neutralizing the mafia of traffickersperhaps we can avoid the worst,” he emphasized.
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The Vice President of the Government and leader of the sovereignist League, the Vice-President of the Government and leader of the League Matteo Salviniby assuring that Italy is “absolutely incapable” of managing “a thousand daily arrivals” of migrants and that “it is crucial that Europe wake up and intervene.”
“[La UE] He’s been chatting for years, but never lifted a fingerand it is time to show that there is a community, a Union, and that solidarity it is not only the responsibility of Italy, Spain, Greece or Malta. Because a thousand arrivals a day we are absolutely incapable of supporting them economically, culturally and socially,” he said.
The President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, and his Italian counterpart, Giorgia Meloni, this Wednesday at the Chigi Palace in Rome.
More of 3,000 migrants They have arrived in Italy in the last few hours of intense activity for the Italian coast guard, which has rescued numerous boats in distress in the Central Mediterranean this weekend.
In two complex and lengthy operations, not yet completed, the Coast Guard intercepted this monday two boats in which they traveled 800 and 400 people in waters close to Sicily and Calabriato the south, who have joined the nearly 2,000 people that the Italian authorities had already rescued in other operations since Friday.
“If Europe is there, since we are net contributors of billions of euros a year, it is time to show it, because we cannot do it alone,” Salvini said, explaining that it is necessary “at least one repatriation center for each region”.
Arrivals to Italy rose to more than 31,000 since the beginning of 2023almost four times more than the close to 8,000 in 2022, with 3,002 migrants in the last three days, and a record of 1,389 last Friday, April 7.
