The time for diagnoses and theorized solutions is over. Now they are needed”concrete actions“to solve a problem that affects everyone. The fundamental awareness that emerged from a meeting Migrants convened by Giorgia Meloni and the English Prime Minister Rishi Sunak That’s exactly it: practical measures are needed to tackle the business of human trafficking, a phenomenon that affects both countries of first arrival and those involved in secondary migration movements.
At the table of the meeting chaired by the Italian and British Prime Ministers were the counterparts of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, and Albania, Edi Rama, the President of the Commission Ursula van der Leyen and French President Emmanuel Macron. The result of the meeting was a co-authored document eight pointswritten to look at the topic from different perspectives.
The eight-point agreement
The first point of the text on joint commitments envisages “taking decisive action together and in cooperation with partner countries to address the problem smuggling of migrants along routes and at external borders, including through joint actions to close the supply chains of organized gangs through information exchange, operational cooperation, measures to stop all vessels involved in smuggling and awareness-raising campaigns.”
According to Ansa, point two is about “updating the Legal framework to step up the fight against human traffickers.” Thirdly, the commitment of the six participating heads of state and government to “continue to develop global partnerships with key countries to address the root causes of migration and support sustainable development through education, job creation and climate adaptation measures.”
The fourth burden adopted during the meeting was to “support the partner countries “To strengthen border protection to prevent unauthorized border crossings as well as search and rescue capacities through the use of personnel, equipment and other material.” A crucial point given the problems of bad collaboration happened often in the past.
Fifth commitment: supporting partner countries, including through IOM and UNHCR, by providing adequate resources. Sixth, the strengthening of Cooperation on returns and readmission “exchange of expertise and diplomatic objectives”. The seventh point provides for the possibility of “allowing entry on humanitarian grounds and other types of legal cases to persons entitled to international protection”. Finally, it is agreed to “strengthen cooperation on visa policy by ensuring that the system is effective against irregularities”.
The commitment of Meloni and Sunak
According to our findings, the idea of a table to solve the problem was conceived by Meloni and Sunak during the last G20 summit in India. And the other news is that the comparison format will be continued beyond that – report the same institutional sources – without exclusions to other participants. Furthermore, the problem raised does not only affect individual countries, but calls into question the politics of the whole international community and especially European. There is currently no precise timetable for the consultations, although all have expressed the intention to move “from statements of principles to their translation into concrete facts”.
The decisive role of Italy
One might hope that this is the right time, since the commitments made and the demonstrations of joint work have on several occasions failed to produce the desired results. For its part, the Meloni government has consistently worked to reverse this trend, as the recent e repeated contacts the Prime Minister with the other European heads of state and government and with the President of the EU Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen. In recent weeks – to underline this change of pace – the leader of the Brothers of Italy has succeeded in obtaining the high European office Lampedusaso that she can closely monitor the complicated situation on the island.
Now the common idea is actually to attack the smugglers’ network by starting to stop the small boat trade floating traps. To those who asked for clarification on the convening of a round table on migrants, the same sources stressed that not doing so would have been a missed opportunity, even though the issue was not on the agenda of today’s meeting, also given the presence of the British Prime Minister.
Macron: “Binding commitments with Rome”
The results were also positive in terms of Italian-Italian relations France. “We want to develop a fight against illegal immigration at the level of the European political community” and they will be developed in the new 6-party format on the issue of migration.”more binding commitments “This will be discussed at the next summit organized by the United Kingdom,” French President Emmanuel Macron announced at a press conference in Granada. In the short term – he added – “we will continue to strengthen border controls in collaboration with Italy, which I thank you for joint workThis points to the need for the EU and the entire CPE to “do more” to “better register people arriving on European soil, better protect borders, prevent influxes and prevent massacres in the Mediterranean.” This – he added to Macron – “is what we want to do with the countries of origin and transit, the heart of the work started with President von der Leyen and President Meloni, and what we want to do at the level of the European Political Community. “
“Implementing the memorandum with Tunis”
Sources interviewed by news agencies report that there is no talk of the so-called “Rwanda model” and that no one has such a solution in mind. Not even the topic of NGOs is mentioned, which has become relevant again in Italy after the new fine against the Open Arms. Regarding the fact that the three protagonists of the mission to Tunis were present at this meeting – namely Meloni, Rutte and von der Leyen – it was noted that there is a common desire to do so to implement this agreement, which has so far remained unfulfilled. And certainly not according to Italy’s wishes.