Migrants, the hypotheses of governments from Rome to London: flows, repatriations and the fight against traffickers

“Faced with the dramatic event that took place on the Calabrian coast, condolences must be translated into concrete, operational choices by everyone, Italy and the EU, because this is the real answer”. After the silence in front of the coffins of migrants at the Palazzetto dello Sport in the Crotone area, the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella he launched an appeal for pain and condolence to be transformed into concrete acts. On Thursday 10 March the Council of Ministers will move to Cutro, on whose coast there was a shipwreck which cost the lives of over 70 people.

The Rome Public Prosecutor’s Office has opened an investigation file as a due act on the shipwreck of Cutro after a presentation presented by the parliamentarians Ilaria Cucchi, Angelo Bonelli and Nicola Fratoianni. Without suspects and crime hypotheses. The complaint asked the Capitoline prosecutors to evaluate the ministerial responsibility in relation to the relief machine.

Palazzo Chigi denies the rumors according to which the Minister of the Interior has been summoned Matteo Piantedosi, who reports to Parliament on Tuesday 7 and Wednesday 8 on the shipwreck in Calabria, due to alleged changes in the executive line on immigration. Giorgia Meloni he said that the government intends to bear the Pope’s words. Francis has made an appeal so that similar tragedies do not repeat themselves and “human traffickers are stopped”. These are the words relaunched by the premier: we will do everything to “fight” the smugglers.

Penalties for smugglers should be tightened up and new measures for repatriation created, but it is also speculated a simplification of reception mechanisms, passing through the institution of international protection. We need an improvement in the regular flows of migrants, which should pass through cooperation agreements with the countries of origin and departure.

Could be fixed an entry quota for 100,000 regular foreigners. Currently, the maximum number of entries is equal to 82,705 foreigners, of which 44,000 for seasonal work.

This could be discussed in the Council of Ministers on Thursday, preceded by a European meeting again on the subject of immigration. TO Brussels the focus is on agreements with countries of origin with rewards, such as higher quotas of regular flows, for those who fight more intensely against irregular departures. The Mediterranean countries are calling once again for the establishment of a permanent and mandatory solidarity mechanism for the relocation of migrants.

They are not dissimilar proposals and plans, even if less rigid than the British government plan. Anyone arriving across the Channel will be detained and taken to countries defined as safe such as Rwanda, will be banned for life from Great Britain and will never be able to obtain citizenship. The government presents on Tuesday 7 March legislation already criticized by human rights organizations which speak of a violation of the United Nations Convention on Refugees. At the same time, Sunak’s government promises “legal and safe” routes for asylum seekers. The London government had already attempted this route last year, but the flights had been blocked by an intervention by the European Court of Human Rights, from which the United Kingdom now wishes to distance itself.

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