Accents d’Europe returns to Italy today, to once again examine the fate reserved for asylum seekers.
There were more than 130,000 of them last year (2023) at the gates of Europe to enter, after Libya and the crossing of the sea, the obstacle course of the request for international protection. Stuck in Italian cities, they are forced to wait weeks, even months, without resources, without shelter. The associations that help them are alarmed by this impossible life and the violation of their rights. And their concern is growing further after the adoption by the European Council of the “Pact on Migration and Asylum” on May 14, 2024.
But on the side of Italian state services, it is saturation. The civil servants in charge of these thousands of files even went on strike to denounce the increasingly difficult working conditions of their profession. But their principal, the government of Giorgia Meloni, still imposes on them an acceleration of the examinations of asylum applications. This is a report in Rome from Blandine Hugonnet.
Poland, country of transit for Ukrainian wounded
Let us now take the direction of the Ukrainian border… And more precisely of Poland, which has become one of the antechambers of the war, in terms of arms deliveries and humanitarian aid. While commercial flights to Ukraine are suspended and some treatment is impossible in the country’s hospitals, the injured and sick are transiting through Poland before reaching European hospitals for treatment.
Our correspondent in Warsaw, for example, went to the town of Rzeszow, near the Ukrainian border, to what is called the “Medevak Hub”, through which patients in critical condition pass, before leave the country by medical plane. Report fromAdrien Sarlat.
Political turmoil in Europe
The aftermath of the European elections… It is now within the confines of Parliament that the political balances which will govern the Union in the coming years are being played out. The outgoing president of the European Commission, the German Ursula Von Der Leyen, has a good chance of seeing her mandate renewed. And this despite the controversies it aroused, the criticisms which targeted it, including in its own political camp, the right-wing group of the European People’s Party, the EPP. Ursula Van Der Leyen therefore needs new allies today. She is of course exploring the side of the social democrats, but also the side of the extreme right, in particular by courting the President of the Italian Council Giorgia Meloni.
Therefore, a question arises: where is Ursula Von der Leyen politically located? And what is his background? His portrait is drawn up this week by Franceline Beretti through its European Eye…
He could be the one who turns the page on fourteen years of Conservative hegemony in the United Kingdom: Rishi Sunak is our European of the week. The British Prime Minister bet big by calling for elections on July 4, 2024. The clarifications from Julien Chavanne.