Emmanuel Macron facing the Lampedusa trap

2023-09-16 06:40:58

The scenario, and this is the tragedy of the story, could have been written in advance. Always the same humanitarian drama in Mediterranean waters, to the point of unbearability: the lifeless body of a 5-month-old infant found drowned. Always the same political battles, with daggers drawn and heated minds. The arrival, this week, of thousands of migrants in a few days on the Italian island of Lampedusa off the coast of Tunisia has put the migration issue at the heart of the debates, all the more burning and exacerbated as everyone has in mind the prospect European elections in June 2024.