“Pure scavenging. This is what the Meloni government is doing regarding the ongoing migration crisis in Ceuta, an autonomous Spanish city located in North Africa. Scavenging and misinformation”: Laura Boldrini, Democratic deputy, said this about the government’s reaction to what happened in the Spanish enclave in Morocco, invaded by migrants in recent hours. The Prime Minister, in fact, announced that the suspension of Schengen with Spain is being considered. While many European countries, such as France and Finland, supported the Italian proposal, in Italy the broad coalition has unconditionally sided with the Spanish leader Pedro Sanchez.
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For Boldrini, for example, “Minister Tajani is engaging in scavenging and misinformation when he declares that this situation is the consequence of the Spanish Prime Minister Sanchez’s decision to ‘grant Spanish citizenship, therefore European, to over 500,000 irregular immigrants.’ Sanchez did not grant Spanish citizenship; he regularized by giving residence permits to 500,000 migrants who already live and work in Spain.” However, by saying this, the Democrat seems to ignore that the applications were 1.3 million and that the police estimated 3 million new residence permits, including family reunifications. Defending Sanchez, she added: “There is no push for irregular immigration, therefore, but a crisis like those that can happen to border countries such as Spain, Italy, and Greece. It is clear that the goal is to target the socialist leader Sanchez and continue to support Trump, who wants to discredit the Spanish Prime Minister, the only one who opposed the 5% of GDP in arms demanded by the tycoon and one of the few who has clearly taken a stand against the genocide in Palestine.”
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According to Riccardo Magi of +Europa, “there is no invasion of migrants in Europe. And no, there is no need to suspend Schengen as the Italian government has announced.” On the contrary, according to him, it is “shameful that Giorgia Meloni is leading this political speculation to launch a false invasion alarm and to subordinately attack the Sanchez government, which is governing Spain much better than Meloni is doing in Italy.” For Magi, the Prime Minister’s move is just “a manufactured alarm” with “the aim of scaring public opinion and not addressing real problems.”
The 5s, on the other hand, even try to put themselves in Spain’s shoes: “We ask Meloni what she would say if tomorrow dozens of boats with thousands of illegal immigrants landed in Sicily and European governments closed the borders by suspending Schengen. After her propaganda stunt against Spain, this scenario would be much more likely. And it certainly would not be in Italy’s interest, which Meloni does not defend, being too busy doing electoral propaganda.” In reality, on more than one occasion Italy has been left alone to manage flows and migration emergencies.
Among Sanchez’s most passionate supporters, the PD secretary Elly Schlein could not be missing: “Instead of showing solidarity with a border country like ours in the fight against traffickers and mafias, Giorgia Meloni opens a diplomatic crisis with Spain and announces she wants to close Schengen. Does the Government really not know that Ceuta is an enclave in Africa and from there there is no free movement either to the Spanish mainland or to other European countries? It is a government of irresponsible propagandists, who for four years have not solved an Italian problem and every day offer only a new enemy. Instead of arguing with maps, they should deal with the skyrocketing fuel prices, zero growth, and Italian wages among the lowest in Europe. But even today, with its propaganda, the Government will try to hide its failures as it hides Delmastro’s chats.”
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