Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni unveiled her country’s strategy to deal with the migration and energy crisis affecting African and Asian nations in the Mediterranean basin, an official statement said today.
During her speech at the eighth edition of the so-called Med Dialogues, which closed its doors a few hours ago in this capital, the President pointed out that to deal with the migration problem “more Europe is needed on the southern front, as Italy has done since quite some time,” says a statement from the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.
“On our own, we cannot manage a flow that has now reached unmanageable proportions,” he said, adding that the European Union (EU) “needs to reinvigorate migration cooperation with partners in Africa and the Mediterranean.”
At the end of this event, organized every year by the Italian Institute for International Policy Studies (ISPI), Meloni expressed the need to “develop the southern dimension of the European Neighborhood Policy and transform it into a real ‘Mediterranean partnership'”.
Among other challenges, he noted that for Italy, “the full and lasting stabilization of Libya is undoubtedly one of the most urgent and sensitive foreign policy and national security priorities.”
He also stated that “we are closely monitoring the process of normalizing relations between Israel and the Arab world and the need to re-internationalize the peace process in order to achieve a two-state solution that is feasible, fair and directly negotiated between the parties.” becomes”.
He stated that “it is necessary to give a strong signal to shift the focus of European energy exchanges precisely towards the Mediterranean”, and assured that “Italy wants and can play a leading role in this strategy”.
The Prime Minister argued that her country’s potential in this respect rests on its “specific geographical location, its infrastructures, its collaborative spirit and the valuable contribution of its companies”.
Latin Press