How to convince the IMF to give 1.9 billion to Tunis and avoid the exodus of immigrants. Meloni’s plan

With the EU-Tunisia memorandum, the prime minister shows that Europe is moving together and gives an initial loan to Saied in the hope that the Monetary Fund will do the same. Next step: the meeting in the White House with President Joe Biden on July 27

Giorgia Meloni’s is a side game. The memorandum of understanding with Tunisia signed two days ago by the Prime Minister, together with the President of the Commission Ursula von der Leyen and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is a geopolitical billiards game that, if it worked, would be a great success. The tacit but clear goal is to convince the IMF to unlock the maxi loan of 1.9 billion essential to avoid that the North African country, hit hard by food inflation and high fuel prices, risks in the autumn the defaultfurther aggravating an already very complicated situation, with the risk of a exodus of migrants to the Italian coasts.