Nearly 7000 arrive at Italian island in less than 24 hours
Nearly 7000 arrive at Italian island in less than 24 hours
The Mediterranean island of Lampedusa is a first point of arrival for people seeking asylum or looking to keep moving north to other European countries.
And back they go.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Mediterranean island of Lampedusa is a first point of arrival for people seeking asylum or looking to keep moving north to other European countries.
A flotilla of flimsy boats, crowded with migrants and launched from Tunisia, overwhelmed a tiny southern Italian island on Wednesday, taxing the coast guard's capability to intercept the smugglers' vessels and sorely testing Premier Giorgia Meloni's pledge to thwart illegal migration.
Compounding the political pressure on Italy's first far-right leader were vows by France and Germany to rebuff migrants who arrive by sea on Italian shores, and in defiance of European Union asylum system rules, head northward to try to find jobs or relatives in those and other northern countries on the continent.
Starting early on Tuesday, the unseaworthy, unstable iron boats came one after the other in what appeared to be almost a procession to onlookers on Lampedusa, a fishing and tourist island south of Sicily.
Provoking the surge in numbers was a bottleneck in Tunisia's ports of several days caused by rough seas that meant the smugglers couldn't launch their boats, according to Italian authorities.
Volunteers working with Baobab provide the migrants with a hot meal every evening on a street in Rome.
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vows by France and Germany to rebuff migrants who arrive by sea on Italian shores, and in defiance of European Union asylum system rules, head northward to try to find jobs or relatives in those and other northern countries
This is EU: united to share benefits, when catastrophes happen each one is left on its own. Afterwards, they wonder why there are so many eurosceptics. When Italy collapses (because it certainly will) they'll be ready to buy everything low cost.
If Italy collapses it will be from being stripped bare by right wing politicians/organized criminals. Not this. That's absurd. You don't see Morocco or Turkey collapsing and those places are absolute shitholes run by morons.
I don't know, I live in that country and the EU isn't doing shit to solve the problem, meanwhile we are drowned by immigrants in any city center I visited, with more and more thefts and teenagers being raped. This was before the Meloni government.
Now it's only getting worse due to the increase in smugglers.
(I don't support the Meloni government, it's the worst shit that could have happened to this country)
'collapsing' in a european context means turning into the same shitholes these people are 'fleeing' from
This is the kind of narrow minded, uninformed point of view upon which all populists thrive.
"The immigrants will make the country collapse! Vote for me! I'll keep all those blacks away!".
No, 70k people will not cause a country of 65 million people, the 8th economy in the world, to collapse.
Incompetent governments will. As well as outdated economic policies, lack of innovation, excessive fiscal pressure and whatnot.
The footprint of a bunch of people who lives on 10 Euro a day isn't even a rounding error. Inflating their significance and supporting the ignorance of the subject is what brings right wingers into power.Thing is, just because you CAN endure something, does not mean that you HAVE to endure it. These illegals misbehave in public in unacceptable ways and so people's votes shift to the right. I still don't get why we don't just support these MILLIONS of working-age men to turn their own countries into something better and instead take in millions after millions for no fucking reason