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This article was published April 9, 2016 at 08:15.
ROME
the controls at the Brenner will be strengthened but, at least for now, Schengen is safe. Yesterday’s meeting at the Interior Ministry of the Interior Minister Angelino Alfano and his Austrian counterpart Johanna Mikl-Leitner has served to salvage. And, compared to two days ago, when Mikl-Leitner had threatened to close the pass preventivando the arrival of 300 thousand migrants in Italy in 2016 along the routes of the Mediterranean (twice in 2015), the tones are definitely lowered.
This was first demonstrated the joint statement issued at the end of the summit: “The two ministers agreed to step up bilateral co-operation between the police forces of the two countries in the monitoring and control of the common border with the strategic objective of ensuring the fluidity of the Brenner pass and safeguarding the free movement provided for Schengen. ” Translated: more vigilance, more men, more exchange of information. But along the common recognition that freedom of movement must be respected and protected. No setback: not after 31 years, not on a step by 1,375 meters of height for the crucial link between the southern and northern Europe. The closure of the Brenner only to transport companies would create losses of 172 million euro a year.
There is another point on which Alfano and Austrian colleague agreed: the “great sharing of intent ‘ asylum and repatriation, and the willingness to work together “for a common European policy based on an ambitious reform of the Dublin Regulation. ‘ The lot to which Italy – so exposed to landings, along with Greece – has long urged, mostly unheard.
If Austria (among the countries who for months have embraced the hard line against migrants and among the main sponsors of the closure of the Balkan route) has put on the table his fears and the request for adequate protection of the crossings, Italy reassured, defending the work of the police, the progress on the identification of the face If you arrive and the operation of the four hotspots. So far, however – it noted Alfano – there are no alarm bells at the border with Austria.
The reduction of tension is not in any case understood the plans of the Austrians: start before the summer season scares, checkpoints and road lanes to verify the identity of travelers. On the other hand Mikl-Leitner has indeed assured that his government will do everything possible “to ensure freedom of movement through the Brenner Pass” but also added that if the number of migrants will rise which will attempt to go to Austria, “we will be forced to step up border controls. ” How monitoring is compatible with the need to not block a 40 thousand vehicles per day traffic has everything to prove.
The Chairman of the Bolzano province, Arno Kompatscher, which yesterday saw in Innsbruck Austrian Vice-Chancellor and the Governor of Tyrol, has announced that by the end of May will be completed infrastructure works to step up controls at refugees border. But it also made clear that “in order to reach a real and concrete solution serves Europe’s commitment.” Must “that all EU states are moving in the same direction”, both on the front and on that of the reception of refugees distribution.
An appeal in this regard has come from the French Minister for European Affairs, Harlem Désir. Visiting Athens, Désir has asked European countries to meet the commitments of aid to Greece and accelerate ricollocamenti and readmissions. That Italy knows, they are at stake. The migrants landed on our shores year to date are 19,638, of which 18,584 parties from Libya. Seven more than the 12,615 in the same period of 2015. But not yet sufficient, they point at the Interior Ministry, as to suggest that at the end of year will become 300 thousand as he believes Austria. It will be precisely Libya, and the fate of the national unity government of Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj, the decisive test.
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