Interior Ministers from Italy, Spain, France, Germany talk to the EU about immigration

The interior ministers from Italy, Spain, France, Germany held a telephone conversation today with the European Commissioner, Ylva Johansson, to address the migratory pressure on the Mediterranean coasts, especially after the massive arrivals to Italy in recent days.

“We need to give maximum political impetus to carry out a new operational strategy against human trafficking that ultimately aims to implement concrete initiatives aimed at blocking exits at source.“, declared the Italian Interior MinisterPiantedosi, in a statement.

At the colloquium, in addition to Piantedosi and the commissioner, European Unionhis counterparts from Spain, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, France, Gérald Darmanin, and Germany, Nancy Faeser, intervened.

According to the writing of Italian executive“During the conversation, a common desire arose to address the migration issue in a concrete and operational way with a view to the next meeting of the EU Justice and Home Affairs Council scheduled in Brussels on September 28.”.

Tomorrow the president of the European ComissionUrsula von der Leyen, as requested in writing yesterday by the Italian Prime Minister, Georgia Meloni, after the arrival of more than 10,000 migrants in just three days.

Faced with the emergency, Meloni yesterday announced a package of measures to dissuade migrants who try to arrive irregularly in Italy, including extending the period of detention in Italy to 18 months, the maximum allowed by law. detention centers for people awaiting repatriation.

He too french presidentEmmanuel Macron, promised decisions of “European solidarity” with Italy in the face of the avalanche of immigrant arrivals to the island of Lampedusa, but in a message clearly addressed to the Meloni Government, he criticized its nationalist positions.

With the numbers constantly evolving, so far this year 127,207 have landed in Italy immigrantsalmost double that of the 66,237 of the same period in 2022 and triple that of 2021 (42,750), according to the latest data from the Ministry of Interior.

With information from EFE.