33 minutes agoItaly against EU for Refugees
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(8 years ago)In migration debate, Italy is taking a course against The EU. It is also questioning the EU humanitarian military mission before Libya. Is the question raised, if people from European ships are to be saved in the future? Italy opposes continuation of the European Union's humanitarian naval mission „Sophia” put into operation during the crisis. [...]
In migration debate, Italy is taking a course against The EU. It is also questioning the EU humanitarian military mission before Libya. Is the question raised, if people from European ships are to be saved in the future?
Italy opposes continuation of the European Union's humanitarian naval mission „Sophia” operating during the Libyan coast refugee crisis. EU ambassadors for security issues held a special meeting Friday because the government of Rome will no longer accept migrants rescued from the Mediterranean from EU ships.
Federica Moghrin's spokeswoman, the EU's in charge of foreign policy, said a solution is being sought within the planned verification of this mission. A solution is expected within five weeks.
EU ships have saved 49,000 people
Italy now views as problematic the assistance of a German Navy ship, part of the EU mission. The government of Rome agreed in 2015 to accept within the framework of the EU mission at Italian ports the surviving migrants in the Mediterranean. It was not thought then that the mission planned to fight the criminality of traffickers would save so many in the Mediterranean. So far more than 49,000 people have been rescued from these ships.
Whether a solution will soon be found in this debate is unknown. Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Cote sent a letter to European Commission President Jean-Claudide Juncker, requesting the revision of the mission „Sophia” While Interior Minister Matteo Salvin, the head of Lega Nord, called in early July for the EU mission's ferry docks to Italian ports to be no longer allowed automatically. / DW/
