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Eight years have passed since the image of little Alan Kurdi, found dead on the beach in Bodrum, Turkey, together with 12 other people fleeing the war in Syria, went around the world. We wondered on whether or not to publish the photo of the 3 year old child's body.Those who had done so said they were convinced that that image would represent the point of no return: “If these images don't change Europe, what will?”, had headlined several newspapers.To hold those who govern to their responsibilities.That photo, it was written at the time, was the iconic representation, the "consequence", of political choices. This year the tenth anniversary was remembered of the Lampedusa shipwreck.It was October 3, 2013, when at least 368 people died in front of the island of Lampedusa, mostly Eritreans, fleeing from Libya.Even then, the images of the coffins lined up, white and small, shocked public opinion.Then, eight days later, there was “the shipwreck of the chil...

“The right advances”.“The European People's Party wins by a landslide”.“The real dark wave is yet to arrive.”These are some of the newspaper headlines that tell the outcome of the European elections on Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 June.The results were expected:the right and the far right increased their consensus, but did not obtain an absolute majority in the European Parliament.The three main right-wing parties (the more moderate European People's Party, the Conservatives and Reformists, which includes the Brothers of Italy, and Identity and Democracy, which includes the League) have different positions on many issues but they all agree on a point:the need to clamp down on migration in Europe, pushing towards an increasingly restrictive policy towards people arriving on the territory of the Union.“We want to stop uncontrolled migration,” was the slogan printed in large letters on the election posters of the European People's Party. Alre...

  'I have my mother and three little brothers in Kabul who depend on this trip, failure was not an option.'Ahmad (not his real name) is 16 years old.It comes to Europe from Afghanistan and tries ten times to jump over the wall of the port of Patras in Greece.He is also bitten by the guards' dogs.But in the end he succeeds.And while he does it, he films himself with his cell phone. Feet, black sneakers, faded pants of the same color, a blue thread passing over one foot.The legs are leaning on a metal bar, there is an intense noise, it could be that of a plane or a ship.The mobile phone picks up, but it's still not clear where we are, an iron skeleton and the air flowing, for a moment it seems like we're in flight.The phone is lowered and it is finally clear what is happening in this video:the asphalt flows fast and the wheel of a truck turns at the same speed.The cell phone returns to the bars under the truck and the camera turns towards the person holding it:the head bent in a...

Deaths:399.Missing:487.It is the tragic toll of the shipwrecks that occurred in the first six months of 2024 on the central Mediterranean route, according to the data published by the International Organization for Migration (IOM).Yet, while hundreds of people continue to die at sea trying to reach our coasts, in Italy it is increasingly difficult to account for shipwrecks:journalists are kept away from the ports and the press has to face a series of obstacles in reporting these events, which now end up being surrounded by an impenetrable rubber wall. The problem is not new:for years, the difficulties faced by reporters in accessing the ports have been compounded by the impossibility of coming into contact with the survivors, which makes it practically impossible to independently reconstruct the truth of the facts.Added to this is the scarcity of official communications, and the continuous request for authorization to approach the dock.“Before, reporters could access ports to...

There must be, somewhere, a secret manual on how not to behave in the face of incidents of discrimination, and everyone in Italian football must have read it.The episode of Francesco Acerbi and Juan Jesus is unfortunately just the umpteenth confirmation of a system which, despite numerous precedents, seems to react every time as if it were the first. Racism in football does not only concern Italy.The difference, however, lies in the response Monday 18 March was exemplary from this point of view.While the controversy surrounding the racist epithet allegedly addressed by the Inter defender to his Brazilian opponent had been going on since the previous evening, in the morning Acerbi's agent, Federico Pastorello, spoke at the TransferRoom Summit in Rome supporting that in reality there had been no racist insult, and that the story had been "badly reported".In the early afternoon, the FIGC he announced the exclusion of the player from the national team, currently involved in a co...

The European Parliament on 10 April voted in plenary composition the adoption of the new Pact for migration and asylum:the approved rules will be formally adopted, after the European Council has approved them, by June 2024.It is the end of a journey that began four years ago.The European Commission's 2020 legislative proposal was born with the aim of outlining a common European framework for the management of migration and asylum, with various legislative proposals. At the end of last year, the Council and the European Parliament had reached a provisional agreement, but that already he marked the direction of the Union's policy, sui five key pillars:the regulation on the management of asylum and migration, the response to migratory crises, asylum procedures, the implementation of the European Dactyloscopie (Eurodac) and the new screening procedures. What we talk about in this article:The enthusiasm of the European institutions for a vote they define as "historic"What the...

European First.It could be summarized like this the agreement on asylum and migration reached on 20 December after all-night negotiations between representatives of national governments, the European Parliament and the European Commission. After years of clashes and fractures, the European Union is consolidating, strengthening the walls of his fortress, erecting walls, elevating migrant people for a moment to a role that is difficult to maintain and then letting them fall.In the middle of the sea. We have been waiting for the reform of the European asylum and migration system for some time.There has been talk for years about the reform of the Dublin Regulation and, in particular, its key principle:that the country of entry be responsible for all asylum procedures even if those arriving do not intend to stay in the country where they arrive.There was great anticipation for this pact on asylum and migration because it will define the direction of EU migration policies for many yea...