2024-01-01 17:08:34
Despite the very restrictive measures adopted by the right-wing and far-right government led by Giorgia Meloni, in 2023 the number of immigrants disembarked – mostly from Guinea, Ivory Coast, Tunisia and Bangladesh – will have increased by 50% with compared to the previous year, reaching 155,754.
First modification: 01/01/2024 – 16:08
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With our correspondent in Rome, Anne Le Nir
In an interview given to the newspaper La Stampa (December 31), the Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, acknowledges that the set objectives have not been achieved. But he claims that, thanks to the cooperation of Tunisia and Libya, more than 121,000 asylum seekers have been prevented from leaving for Italy.
Matteo Piantedosi admits that the government’s flagship measure, which prohibits NGOs from carrying out more than one rescue operation at a time and forces them to disembark in a port far from the rescue zones, has not given the expected results.
By 2024, the Minister of the Interior hopes that the Albanian Constitutional Court, which must rule on the agreement between Rome and Tirana on January 18, will give the green light to the relocation to Albania of some of the migrants intercepted off the Italian coast.
It also promises to intensify support to Tunisia and Libya to help them launch programs for the voluntary return of migrants to their countries of origin.
But in Italy no measures have been taken to facilitate the integration of people with the right to asylum, including the 17,283 unaccompanied minors who will arrive in 2023.
The International Organization for Migration estimates that 2,571 people died in the Mediterranean, almost a thousand more than in 2022.
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