Migrants, the government’s plan for smugglers, asylum and rescues. The League wants the hard line – Corriere.it

The draft is not there yet. Indeed, the drafts. Given that Giorgia Meloni wants to arrive at the Council of Ministers on Thursday in Cutro with a package of rules on immigration that can follow up on the warning of the head of state, Sergio Mattarella to transform condolences into concrete choices by Italy and the EU. And to the appeal of Pope Francis to welcome.

They won’t be cosmetic measures, filters through Palazzo Chigi, but the beginning of an articulated path that addresses the entire problem in its complexity. And they certainly won’t be a rehash of those security decrees which, moreover, the Constitutional Court has already rejected. So you try to defuse the controversy by the opposition that invested the prime minister and the government. This is why the scheduling on the same day of Thursday in the Housein the Constitutional Affairs Committee, of the tightening on residence permits desired by the League to put an end to some discretions of the commissions in granting them with a bill that goes back to the Salvini decree. But disagreements have been denied by the government: The synthesis will be found as always.

We are working along three lines: the fight against traffic, reception and the pressing on the European Union. However, the package cannot fail to take into account a review of the management of rescue at sea. There do it in the chain of competences, which contributed, at least in part, to the wreckage, must be remedied immediately. And in these hours the possibility of reviewing the regulatory and procedural structure is being evaluated to make it clearer to everyone what Prime Minister Meloni has declared on every occasion: First of all, it is necessary save human lives. In this case, new circulars from the competent ministries could suffice redistribution of tasks of the forces in the field immediately after the signal of danger or the arrival of an SOS.

On the reception the premier Meloni will arrive in Cutro backed by a commitment to reopen the flows decree for at least 100,000 non-EU workers. A measure that could last for two years. With a premium entry quota for those countries that sign agreements for the repatriation of illegal migrants. And we will try to make it even more effective legislation on asylum and humanitarian protection. For this reason, humanitarian corridors will be opened also with the cooperation of those associations capable of guaranteeing hospitality, as has already happened for the Ukrainians.

On the trafficking of human beings the intention of using a hard fist with smugglers, a part of the majority is already thinking of an increase in penalties. In reality, the rules already exist, just like there expectation of very high penalties for those who commit the crime of aiding and abetting illegal immigration and for this reason we will discuss the opportunity to proceed by decree with the Quirinale. However, the road passes through a policy that fights criminal organizations in the countries of origin. Commitment already signed at the summit of the Med countries 5 of which they are part Italy, Cyprus, Greece, Malta and Spain.

It will be necessary to discuss all this with the EU because it is true that even after this latest shipwreck the authorities of Brussels they promised maximum effortbut it is true that so far all the statements that over the years had ensured closeness and cooperation to Italy have never been translated into concrete measures.

This is why we will once again ask for greater sensitivity on the issue of relocation, reiterating the need for a solidarity mechanism permanent and mandatory. A step that now necessarily provides for the modification of the Dublin treaty which imposes reception, identification and permanence in the country of first landing. Italy will also ask for this a rule that — in the event of rescue at sea during a rescue operation and not a police operation — allows the shipwrecked to be able to be immediately transferred to another EU country without staying where they landed.