Greater than 8,000 migrants departing from Tunisia disembarked on the Italian island of Lampedusa in mid-September, overwhelming reception services that don’t have any lack of expertise with such occurrences. The “scenes of chaos” that adopted the arrivals have been extensively documented in latest days, and kind a part of a wider context of controversial migration agreements signed by the European Union – notably with Tunisia – and the Italian authorities’s extreme crackdown on NGOs concerned in rescuing migrants at sea. Because the starting of the yr, virtually 130,000 folks – notably Guineans, Ivorians and Tunisians – have arrived in Italy by sea, twice as many as on the identical time final yr.
The President of the European Fee, Ursula von der Leyen, and the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, visited Lampedusa on 17 September to indicate assist on behalf of the European Union and Italy for the island’s inhabitants. They introduced a European plan to take care of the rise in migrant arrivals, with an settlement on the European Pact on Migration and Asylum nonetheless beneath dialogue between the 27 EU Member States after 4 years. – Adrian Burtin
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