the European commission welcomes the Italian proposal on the ‘migration compact’. “President Juncker is very pleased that the European approach has strong support” from Italy, “We will work closely with Matteo Renzi to keep pushing to have more Europe” is to know the spokesperson of the EU Commission, Margaritis Schinas Luxembourg , at the Council of Foreign Ministers. A project, the Italian one, which proposes to reduce flows through agreements with the migrants’ home countries, to be financed by bond EU-Africa that allow the easy access of these countries to the financial markets. But there is no German: “The German government sees no basis for a common financing of debts for expenses of the member states for migration,” Do you know the government spokesman, who responds by proposing a gasoline tax as a financial instrument to address the crisis.
the tragedy off the coast of Egypt
A diplomat close comparison on the day on which in the Mediterranean would have been killed another 200 migrants. There are many people who remain missing in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Egypt. Were aboard four boats battered: according to local witnesses would be drowned while trying to reach Italy. The news, talking about 400 missing, is the online Mail , citing the BBC Arabic which, in turn, incorporates local sources. The immediate intervention of rescue teams would have helped to rescue thirty people. According to reports from the online version of the British tabloid, the vast majority of immigrants would be of Somali origin, but there would also Ethiopians and Eritreans. He speaks instead of 200 migrants drowned in the Mediterranean the Somali Information Ministry. Earlier the president, the prime minister and the speaker of the Somali parliament had signed a joint statement of condolence to the nation for the shipwreck in which were found to be involved 400 migrants, most of them Somalis, “parties from Libya to Italy.” The news of the sinking has not found when other official confirmation.
Moves the High Commissioner UN
the sinking of the boat in the waters off the coast of Egypt has not delineated borders. The Cairo office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is in contact with the Egyptian government to get more details. The spokesman of the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, Ahmed Abu Zeid, said that “at the moment we have no information. The protection of coasts and borders is the responsibility of the Ministry of Defence, with which we are checking. ” Also initiated contacts with the embassy in Rome.
“need to think ‘means words of Sergio Mattarella
the tragedy at sea also shall be the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella. “Today think there really needs,” says Sergio Mattarella “We are reminded of yet another tragedy in the Mediterranean seems to hundreds of deaths in a year after the tragedy in which they died 800. Thinking is necessary.”
Sad anniversary, Mogherini “much to do”
The new journey of hope ( board ) ended badly, in fact, it falls into the sad anniversary of another tragedy at sea: exactly one year ago, on April 18, the death of about 800 people in the Sicilian Channel , 60 miles from Libya. “We have done a lot, of course, there is much that we are still planning and doing” the words of Federica Mogherini, High Representative for the European Union’s foreign policy. At the start, just today, the recovery operations of the sinking wreck off Libya: the ship commissioned by the Navy will engage and transport the vessel to the port of Augusta. The operations should be completed by the end of April.
The invitation Gentiloni, ” no walls, but common efforts “
the new wreck is for the Italian Foreign Minister, Paolo Gentiloni, one more reason” for Europe to say that at this time no He must build walls, but redouble their efforts. ” Words that the head of the Foreign Ministry ruling on his arrival in Luxembourg, and which are a clear reference to raising a barrier to Brenner, commissioned by Austria, to stop a possible influx of migrants from Italy. “Italy should not just let pass the refugees to Central Europe, otherwise the problem gets worse,” reply the head of Austrian diplomacy Kurz and precise: “I will ask for an end to the free passage of refugees.”
Six corpses on a direct dinghy in Italy
Six more bodies were recovered in the night on board a semi-sunken boat, almost completely filled with water and the engine out. The operation carried out by the Coast Guard in the Channel of Sicily, about 20 miles from the Libyan coast north of Zabratah, has saved 108 people, including five women. But the budget could be more serious: the castaways rescued from the ship Aquarius Association Mediterranean SOS report that on board there were 130-140 people from Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea Conakry, Ivory Coast, Togo, Nigeria , Senegal, Mali, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea. There would, therefore, at least a dozen missing.
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