Migrants, from the new France jabbed at Meloni: “Inhuman and ineffective”, says the head of Macron’s party

“Meloni’s policy is unjust, inhuman and ineffective”. From Paris another clear and very harsh judgment falls on Rome on the migration policies of the Italian government. This time to pronounce it is Stéphane Séjournéhead of Renaissance, the party of Emmanuel Macron, and chair of the centrist Renew Europe group in the European Parliament. His words are reported by Figaro in an article published today.

Once again the attack is double-edged: Giorgia Meloni is hit abroad, Marine Le Pen is aimed at internally. “The French far right takes the Italian far right as a model. Their incompetence and impotence must be denounced. Meloni does a lot of demagoguery in the face of illegal immigration: his policy is unjust, inhuman and ineffective”, says Séjourné .

The thesis of the article is clear from the title: “Macron uses Meloni as an anti-Le Pen bogeyman”. One year before the European elections, the French president wants to draw a decisive division between his centralist and nationalist blocs, explains Figaro. And even if Le Pen underlined the differences that separate her from Meloni, arguing that she is not her “twin sister”, the Rassemblement National recognizes a certain affinity of views on immigration with the Brothers of Italy.

The theme is becoming recurring in France. Last week, the words of Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin set off a diplomatic case: Meloni, “at the head of a far-right government chosen by Le Pen’s friends, is incapable of managing the migratory problems for which she was elected “. Following this statement, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani canceled a meeting with his French counterpart and asked for an apology from the Elysée, which in fact did not arrive.

But while Paris minimizes, in Rome the tone is different. The premier herself commented a few days ago the story: “It seems to me that it is more an issue of internal French politics. But I advise caution on using other governments to settle the scores of internal politics, because it’s something you don’t normally do.”

Sejourné is no stranger to the positions expressed today in Figaro. Already last Friday he agreed with Darmanin. He wrote on Twitter: Gérald Darmanin was right to denounce the incompetence and impotence of the European far right in the face of illegal immigration. We knew that their approach is neither just nor humane: we see today that it is also ineffective”.