(Finance) – The reaction French it was “incomprehensible and unjustifiable”. So the Prime Minister, Giorgia Melonsduring the press conference after the Council of Ministers on the issue migrants. “When it comes to retaliation in an EU dynamic something is not working. I was very impressed by the aggressive reaction of the French government “, said Meloni.” Italy’s request for isolation betrays a curious EU dynamic. We talk about solidarity and sharing. I want to hope that it does not happen, it would not be intelligent “for an EU that must have” its own standing “, added Meloni.
The ship of SOS Méditerranée with 230 migrants on board (57 children) she arrived this morning at the naval military base of Toulon. According to the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, about eighty migrants could already be entrusted to Germany within the day, which has reached an agreement with France to take care of them. From yesterday at 20, strengthened controls at the Franco-Italian border came into force, decided by Paris after Rome’s refusal to accept the Ocean Viking. The checks concern “over a dozen” crossing points, including mountain ones, writes the AFP, citing the police. It is about “controlling the stations, the secondary axes above all in Menton, but also Sospel or Breil-sur-Roya, motorway axes, in particular the A8, the exits and tolls on the motorways”.
Meloni called for a ‘only common solution. “I talked about it with Macron, Germany and the EU: it is the defense of the EU’s external borders, blocking departures, opening hotspot. We have spent millions of euros to help Turkey, now we need a European solution “, she declared.” I continue to give my willingness to meet and put on the table the solutions because I frankly don’t know what they are. We are no longer able to deal with it and we have a mandate to deal with it in a different way “, added the Prime Minister.
Trust has broken with Italy: the French Secretary of State for EU Affairs said so, Laurence Bonneto France Info. Boone reminded that Rome “had engaged in mechanism of solidarity EU “and that” the treaties apply beyond the life of a government, otherwise if we had to change the rules every time it would be unsustainable “.” The current Italian government – he continued – did not respect the mechanism for which it was committed and trust is broken. I think it can be said, because there was one decision unilateral which has put lives in danger and which, moreover, is not in conformity with international law “.