Italy: Meloni government hopes the state of emergency will help manage flows – Around 1,000 refugees have arrived in Lampedusa in 24 hours. By declaring a state of emergency, the Italian far-right government is “responding” to the continuous immigration and refugee flows, expecting that in this way, it will manage to regulate the situation.
The above, as well as the allocation of 5 million euros to deal with the issue, were decisions taken during today’s meeting of the country’s cabinet, against the background of the refugee flows of the last 24 hours – and not only.
As APE-MPE reports, the state of emergency was declared in order to reduce the various bureaucratic procedures, with particular reference to the residence centres for immigrants and refugees, but also to speed up the identification procedures and the procedures regarding repatriations, according to what the Italian press reports.
It is recalled that in the past, the Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni “made a deal” with Kyriakos Mitsotakis, in order to claim the financing of fences from the European Union, considering that this way they will solve the refugee-immigration issue.
The steady flow of migrants in recent days has turned Italy’s open waters into a ‘wet prison’, with the state seemingly unprepared to support people arriving by boat.
Migrants have arrived in Lampedusa, and the end is not on the “horizon” since an authoritative source noted that more boats are expected. Indicatively, the island’s reception centre can accommodate 400 people, and so far, 1,883 have arrived there.Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piandendozzi, with the awareness that it is a serious phenomenon, which shows a huge increase, even by a percentage of 300%.ion in the country.
