From Minniti to Boldrini, Schlein changes the Pd line on immigration

The secretary of the Pd against the EU-Libya memorandum: “No to agreements like those with Libya and Turkey”. Party realists niche. Deputy Lia Quartapelle says: “Agreements with countries of origin and transit are useful, but Saied is unreliable and shouldn’t be legitimized”

“For me, Ursula von der Leyen made a big mistake,” Laura Boldrini tells Il Foglio. The former Speaker of the Chamber – once in SEL today fully integrated in the Schleinian Pd – is the first signatory of the resolution that the dem group of Montecitorio deposited in the Foreign Affairs commission e which contains the party line on the EU-Tunisia memorandumtranslating into a commitment le statements by Elly Schlein. “The memorandum between the EU and Tunisia is yet another attempt to outsource border control without taking into account respect for democracy and human rights. “It’s an approach that we’ve already seen in the past, with Turkey and Libya, and I can’t agree”, said the secretary who had just arrived in Brussels for a meeting of the socialists yesterday. The Democratic Party therefore attacks a choice not only of Meloni but also of the EU commission. This was underlined by MEP and vice president of the party Pina Picerno: “It is serious that all this is happening with the consent of the EU Commission and its president”. In short, the unbelievable seems to have happened. Giorgia Meloni – outside the EU executive – manages to bring to Tunisia for the signing of a 255 million agreement (with a promise to reach 900 million if the IMF loan is unblocked) the president of the EU Commission, while the Democratic Party, although always in the majority, finds itself isolated in a position that denies the strategy chosen by the EU executive to stabilize Tunisia and try to stop the flows. Dems abandon Minniti line – in the sense of Marco, Minister of the Interior between 2016 and 2018 who managed to close the agreements with Libya which brought arrivals to Italy from 180,000 in 2014 to 23,000 in 2018 (never below 100,000 in all the years middle), and who in fact praised the agreement – ​​to marry the Boldrini line. “Thinking about stopping departures makes no sense”, argues the former Speaker of the Chamber.