Majorino (Pd): “France does not teach lessons, but Meloni’s immigration management is disconcerting”

“The truth is that we are facing a big mess”, begins the MEP of the Democratic Party Pierfrancesco Majorino, head of migration policies in the Schlein secretariat, on the France-Italy clash. “On immigration there is a need for a radical change in EU policies, not to fuel conflicts between countries which should instead reach out to face together an epochal phenomenon”.

But why mess, sir? Wasn’t it the Macron government that launched a cold attack against us?
“In this affair there are two aspects to consider. On the one hand, France absolutely cannot give lessons because it has not always worked for cooperation at a European level to change the rules on migrants. I am thinking of overcoming Dublin or of the obligation, never introduced, redistributions, as well as a mission to save lives at sea. All things on which the Union should be more cohesive and ambitious, setting aside national calculations once and for all”.

And the other aspect?
“The Meloni government’s management of immigration is disconcerting. Not only does it not seek dialogue in any way in Europe, but – see Dl Cutro – it implements policies that end up magnifying the great gray area of ​​the invisible. particular the institute of special protection, the only result is to throw people out of the reception circuit and to increase the number of homeless.After all, this is what happened with the so-called safety decrees of Salvini four years ago. big cities filled up with migrants who were no longer entitled to forms of reception, in spite of legality”.

But does this justify Minister Darmanin’s verbal aggression?
“The French answer is wrong, but this doesn’t change the nature of the question. Italy should have responded not by fueling the competition between countries that consider immigration like a hot potato to be sent back to the other field, but by working to broaden the front community willing to share the management of migratory flows that affect the whole continent and can no longer be postponed. Meloni is a disaster on this ground”.

So was Minister Tajani wrong to cancel his mission to Paris?
“Absolutely because it is a spiral that only increases the problems, for our country and for the negotiations in Europe. Now, I repeat, we must strengthen cooperation between states and we need to take a decisive step forward. And I will say more: France and Italy should lead Europe to open legal access channels and erase obscenities such as the agreements with Libya. Instead, the opposite is being done”.

Up to now, however, the EU has done very little, hasn’t Italy been left too alone?
“There is no doubt. If I think about the Commission and the European Council, they have both been uncertain and contradictory. But now the time has come for everyone to recognize this and to start working together, knowing that we are not talking about numbers, but about people in the flesh. This is the reason why I consider the door that the Meloni government is slamming in the face of the mayors on unaccompanied minors to be inhumane. Municipalities do not have effective tools for making integration paths on their own and the idea makes me shiver to open low-threshold centers where they can be interned, giving up widespread quality reception”.

But aren’t the sovereign parties allied with Meloni and Salvini really holding back in Europe on the sharing of migration policies?
“If that is why in the European Parliament both the league and the FdI did not vote in favor of either the Dublin reform, as Schlein has said many times, or the redistribution. The right continues to play two sides: in Italy it says that it is necessary to change the rules, in Europe it takes sides against it, going after Orban. A contradiction that our government then tries to unload on the conflict with France. That’s why I believe they are both in error: for internal political reasons, consensus is sought on the skin of migrants, but in the end the problem remains and millions of men, women and children are paying the price”.