Because the Meloni government has moved very well on Tunisia
What does the signing of the memorandum of understanding between the EU and Tunisia advocated by Giorgia Meloni mean? Damato's Scratches
She will also flounder on some internal problems, such as the always slippery one of the relationship between politics and justice, with which other Prime Ministers of different colors or alignments have also struggled to deal with, but it must be recognized that Giorgia Meloni continues to reap successes on an international level, however downplayed or contested by his opponents. Yesterday, for example, he participated in Tunisia in the signing of the Carthage memorandum of understanding between the European Union and Tunisia itself for a strategic and global partnership, for which the Italian premier has spent a lot, practically dragging the German president with her of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and the premier of Holland Mark Rutte.
It is an essential piece of that change of course that Meloni boasts of having brought to fruition in Europe by making immigration a more "external" than "internal" problem, which can be solved by thinking and remedying more departures, fighting the smugglers, than to arrivals on the southern European borders. Of which the Italian ones are certainly not a secondary part.
THE LINE OF MELONS ON MIGRANTS, AND THAT OF SALVINI
While the Northern League leader Matteo Salvini as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior of Giuseppe Conte's first government did his best, even at the cost of ending up on trial after the fall of that government and a change of majority, to hinder access to ports and on the Italian coasts, Meloni no longer preferred to bet on the naval blockade unrealistically claimed when she was in opposition, but on the possibility of controlling and discouraging departures by agreeing with the states concerned and favoring their conditions and development. In this perspective, the prime minister is pursuing a Mattei plan, evoking the policy of strong collaboration with the coastal countries of Africa, and beyond, practiced by the historic founder of ENI.
THE "DISPUTABLE" PACT WITH TUNISIA, SECOND FUTURE
Although she has managed on several occasions to establish a relationship of sympathy with the Pope himself, Meloni has found herself having to deal with her vision and management of the problem of migrants with the Italian bishops. Or at least with their newspaper, Avvenire , which headlined yesterday on the front page preceding the premier's mission: "A questionable pact". Debatable because "the Tunisian government – the Catholic newspaper once again headlined – sends refugees to die in the desert and incites the streets against black people", now also with the political and financial help of the European Union, again according to Avvenire . With whose jokes as a priest, indeed as a bishop, a left agrees, forgetting that the premises of the policy pursued today by the Italian government date back to the action of a member of the Democratic Party such as Marco Minniti, Minister of the Interior in Paolo Gentiloni's government. Who is not a namesake, but the European commissioner in charge for economic and monetary affairs. That Meloni certainly gave help to get his line through Brussels.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/tunisia-memorandum-cartagine-governo-meloni/ on Mon, 17 Jul 2023 06:31:30 +0000.