RIMINI (Reuters) – The Italian government is struggling because the joint European system for combating illegal immigration Frontex can replace the program with Mare Nostrum which Italy is facing landings of illegal immigrants on its southern coast and that has helped to save 120,000 lives and arrest 500 smugglers.
They said the Secretary for EU Policies, Sandro Gozi, and the Minister for Agriculture, Maurizio Martina, speaking on the sidelines of the Meeting of friendship before participating in a panel discussion on ‘ immigration.
“Italy calls for coherence to the EU. The border of the Mediterranean is a common border. Common action is needed from an increase in funding and operational capacities of Frontex must actually replace Mare Nostrum. We are working on this, “he said, remembering how Gozi Mare Nostrum” has saved 120,000 lives, “and allowed the arrest” of more than 500 people smugglers. “
Asked if Italy does not fear that Europe can once again stand back and give a negative answer, Gozi added: “We work hard because the answer is positive and the EU is consistent with what was said at the summit in late June in which it is clearly indicated the assumption of shared responsibility to meet immigration in the Mediterranean. “
The Secretary concluded by saying that “the Mediterranean can not be a cemetery of indifference and selfishness of the EU but a place where the Union must prove that there is. “
Speaking in Rimini the same event the CL, but in a different round table, the minister Martina has called for a joint intervention of the EU immigration: “There is a need for Europe to take charge until the end of the great immigration. Europe can not be only measures of economic-financial nature, but must return to being a great space of citizenship. On the frontier of immigration, the proper management of these flows whit, we play really the future size of the European Union. “
” I expect that in the coming hours will produce new facts make it clear that this positive effort. We are not discussing just an Italian problem, but a big European issue, “he said Martina.
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