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A few days after the closed-door press conference which saw Ursula Von Leyen, Giorgia Meloni and the president of Tunisia Kaïs Saïed together, yet another piece of news arrives from the Mediterranean of a terrible shipwreck, which occurred on the night between the 13th and 14th June.off Pylos, Greece. There are 78 confirmed victims so far.However, there is talk of hundreds of missing people which could raise the death toll to 600, according to the latest estimates.Among the survivors, some reported that in the hold of the boat there were "at least 100 children”.Overall there were around 750 people present, coming from Pakistan, Egypt, Syria, Afghanistan and Palestine. While operations at sea continue, for the umpteenth time a pattern of denied or rebuffed responsibilities is repeated, which we had recently seen with the Cutro shipwreck, and which we are seeing now with the continuous changes of version of the Greek authorities, the conflicting versions.The Frontex agency has for...

Migrants, EU-Tunisia Memorandum of Understanding signed Update July 18, 2023: On 16 July the European Union signed the memorandum of understanding with Tunisia providing economic support from Brussels in exchange for border control and the implementation of economic reforms. According to the agreement, achieved by the Tunisian President, Kais Saied, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, the Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, and the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, the EU is committed to providing financial support to Tunisia to improve the its search and rescue system at sea, the patrolling of territorial waters and border control, while Tunisia will promote the repatriation of Tunisian citizens who arrived irregularly in Europe.Saied – underlines Annalisa Camilli – reiterated her intention not to open refugee camps or centers to which non-Tunisian migrants could also be sent, as had been proposed by the EU during the negotiations. The funds...

At least 86 people, including 35 children, they are dead on the night between 25 and 26 February in the strip of sea that bathes Steccato di Cutro, a town with 400 inhabitants in Calabria, between Crotone and Catanzaro.They had left Turkey aboard a precarious and overloaded boat, with the aim of reaching the European Union and in many cases reuniting with family members who had faced the horrors of the crossing before them. The dozens of bodies brought back to shore by the waters confirm the failure of European - as well as Italian - policies for the management of migratory flows, excessively complicated already on paper and useless, then, in practice.It's from yesterday, March 28th relationship of the United Nations Human Rights Council which, in a three-year investigation, found "overwhelming evidence" that people stranded in Libya are being systematically tortured and forced into sexual slavery while trying to reach Europe.The report criticizes the European Union for “the suppor...

When 94 people, including 35 children, drowned 40 meters from the Steccato di Cutro beach last February 26, the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, said:“If we could, we would have saved the migrants.”And he had blocked the requests for transparency on the opaque chain of rescue and resignation of the Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, for his words of rare inhumanity immediately after the tragedy and for the rescue intervention after the shipwreck had already occurred. The errors, flaws and falsehoods of the government's version of the Cutro massacre The government did not deliberately cause the migrants to die, Meloni responded to these requests while the blame and buck-passing between the Coast Guard (which reports to the Ministry of Transport) and the Financial Police (which reports to the Ministry of the Interior) continued. and Frontex (the European Border and Coast Guard Agency).Among those who claimed that they had been consulted only for information and that the...

The anti-government protests in Israel, the attack in the West Bank, the Israeli raids in Syria.The Middle East is a powder keg.